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A beautiful and memorable look at some of the most gorgeous endangered places on the planet.Machu Picchu is a mesmerizing, ancient Incan city tucked away in the mountains of Peru, but it is rapidly being worn down by the thousands of feet treading across its stones. Glacier National Park is a destination long known for the stunning beauty of its ice floes, but in our lifetimes it will have no glaciers due to global warming. In the biobays of Puerto Rico swimmers can float in a sea shimmering with bioluminescent life, but sediment being churned up by development is killing the dinoflagellates…

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2 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2008
    Vintage · 400 pages · 9780307277367
  • Ebook · English · 2008
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307389282
Endangered ecosystemsNatureNature conservationNonfictionVoyages and travelsDescription And TravelEnvironmental ProtectionNature/Ecology