The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan de Conrad D. Totman - 1988-10

University of California Press, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of California Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1988. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0520063139 . Rubbing and toning overall, remains of a small sticker on the top right corner of the front and the heel, brief bumps to corners, and light foxing to the page edges. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Photos on request. International shipping billed at cost. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 297 pages .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Minor rubbing. VG. Japanese Forestry Univ. of California Press Berkeley [CA] (1989) orig.cloth 24x15cm, xiii,297,(8)pp "Every foreign traveler in Japan is delighted by the verdant forest- shrouded mountains that thrust skyward from one end of the island chain to the other. The Japanese themselves are conscious of the lush green of their homeland, which they sometimes refer to as 'the green archipelago'. Yet, based on its fragile geography and centuries of extremely dense human occupation, Japan today should be an impoverished, slum-ridden, peasant society subsisting on a barren, eroded moonscape characterized by bald mountains and debris-strewn lowlands. In fact, as Conrad Totman argues in this pathbreaking work based on prodigious research, this lush verdue is not a monument to nature's benevolence and Japanese aesthetic sensibilities, but the hard-earned result of generations of human toil that have converted the archipelago into one great forest preserve. Indeed,the author shows… Leer más