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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press

ISBN-10146966934X

ISBN-139781469669342

eBay Product ID (ePID)10050430637

Product Key Features

Book TitleCrossroads of The Natural World : Exploring North Carolina with Tom Earnhardt

Number of Pages328 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEnvironmental Conservation & Protection, Regional, Life Sciences / Biology

Publication Year2022

IllustratorYes

GenreNature, Science

AuthorTom Earnhardt

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight0 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2012-035432

ReviewsCrossroads of the Natural World belongs in the home of every North Carolinian who cares about our state. It's beautiful enough to be a coffee-table book, but it's also a book that deserves to be read and reread for both pleasure and edification.--Our State [A] beautiful new book.--DG Martin, Durham Herald-Sun A valuable look at different perspectives on the state's natural resources and how we should take care of them.--Southern Pines Pilot Earnhardt is a cheerleader for natural biodiversity in North Carolina's environment.--Durham Herald Sun, A valuable look at different perspectives on the state's natural resources and how we should take care of them.-- Southern Pines Pilot, Crossroads of the Natural World belongs in the home of every North Carolinian who cares about our state. It's beautiful enough to be a coffee-table book, but it's also a book that deserves to be read and reread for both pleasure and edification.-- Our State, A valuable look at different perspectives on the state's natural resources and how we should take care of them. -- Southern Pines Pilot, Crossroads of the Natural World belongs in the home of every North Carolinian who cares about our state. It's beautiful enough to be a coffee-table book, but it's also a book that deserves to be read and reread for both pleasure and edification. -- Our State, Earnhardt is a cheerleader for natural biodiversity in North Carolina's environment.-- Durham Herald Sun, Earnhardt is a cheerleader for natural biodiversity in North Carolina's environment. -- Durham Herald Sun

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal508.756

SynopsisIn this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, seamlessly ties deep geological time and forgotten species from our distant past to the unparalleled biodiversity of today. With varied topography and a climate that is simultaneously subtropical, temperate, and subarctic, he shows that North Carolina is a meeting place for living things more commonly found far to the north and south. Highlighting the ways in which the state is a unique ecological crossroads, Earnhardt's research, insightful writing, and stunning photography will both teach and inspire. Crossroads of the Natural World invites readers to engage a variety of topics, including the impacts of invasive species, the importance of forested buffers along our rivers, the role of naturalists, and the challenges facing the state in a time of climate change and sea-level rise. By sharing his own journey of more than sixty years, Earnhardt entices North Carolinians of every age to explore the natural diversity of our state., In this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, seamlessly ties deep geological time and forgotten species from our distant past to the unparalleled biodiversity of today. With varied topography and a ......

LC Classification NumberQH105.N8