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Discovering Monaro: A Study of Man's Impact on His Environment
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Discovering Monaro: A Study of Man's Impact on His Environment Hardcover - 1972

by W. K. Hancock


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Discovering Monaro, a fascinating local history of an Australian region, is at the same time a contribution to the current debate on the environment and man's manipulation of it. Sir Keith Hancock examines critically the indictment, heralded by Plato in the Critias, that man is a creature who spoils his environment and in so doing spoils himself. He discovers in Monaro, as he did on the terraced hillsides of Tuscany forty years ago, a rhythm of spoiling, restoring and improving. Monaco, a region of nearly 6,000 square miles in Australia's south-eastern corner, is the main provider of water to the earth's driest continent. Sir Keith provides a detailed history of the land use of the area from palaeolithic times to the present day, thus explaining how boo generations of 'black' Australians and six generations of 'white' Australians have supported themselves on its grassy uplands and alpine water-sheds.

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  • Title Discovering Monaro: A Study of Man's Impact on His Environment
  • Author W. K. Hancock
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 221
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, London
  • Date 1972
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521084390 / 0521084393
  • Library of Congress subjects Nature - Effect of human beings on -, Ecology - Australia - Monaro - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 78178280
  • Dewey Decimal Code 919.44
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Discovering Monaro: A Study of Man's Impact on his Environment

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London & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1972 The dust jacket has some wear, with a clipped front inside flap, several large tears which have been mended with tape, and scuffs. The page edges are lightly tanned. The title page has a pen inscription from a previous owner. 209 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor.
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