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Carregando... Plundering paradise : the hand of man on the Galapagos islands (2002)de Michael D'Orso
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. For anyone who has been to or is considering visiting the Galapagos Islands, this book is a must read. It's also an interesting read for anyone interested in preserving the environment and learning how government impacts the work of ecologists and scientists. The author interviews many different inhabitants of the Galapagos and those associated with the area. The book delves into topics as diverse as the island folklore, Ecuador's policies towards the islands, and fishing practices around the islands. It is an eye-opening view of how a corrupt and unstable government is affecting one of our most precious and interesting environments. I had the opportunity to visit the Galapagos Islands last year, and this book enhanced my travel experience. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Mention the Gal#65533;pagos Islands to almost anyone, and the first things that spring to mind are iguanas, tortoises, volcanic beaches, and, of course, Charles Darwin. But there are people living there, too -- nearly 20,000 of them. A wild stew of nomads and grifters, dreamers and hermits, wealthy tour operators and desperately poor South American refugees, these inhabitants have brought crime, crowding, poaching, and pollution to the once-idyllic islands. In Plundering Paradise, Michael D'Orso explores the conflicts on land and at sea that now threaten to destroy this fabled "Eden of Evolution." Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Overall, the picture is pretty bleak. The Galápagos face pressures both external and internal from humans, and D'Orso does a fair job detailing both. However, his whirlwind tour of the Islands and its people left me confused as to just who was who, and their relation to one another. A glossary of names, places, and the Spanish terms he uses throughout would have gone a long way towards relieving some of that.
The organization of the book also contributed to my confusion. There was a vague chronological order of book based on when the author met the people he was describing, but he would also go back into the Islands' history to detail events specific to those people at that point, which muddled things. ( )