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University of California Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today--that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Marvelously detailed and beautifully written, Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts. M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information on native…
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No country in the world was as well supplied by Nature, with food for man, as California, when first discovered by the Spaniards.
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- Título Tending the Wild
- Autor M. Kat Anderson
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 555
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of California Press
- Fecha de publicación June 14, 2005
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780520238565 / 0520238567
- Peso 2.18 libras (0.99 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.32 x 6.46 x 1.64 pulgadas (23.67 x 16.41 x 4.17 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America - California -, Indians of North America - Agriculture -
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2004017995
- Dewey Decimal Code 333.708
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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
de Anderson, M. Kat
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- First
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780520238565 / 0520238567
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