Forgotten Edens : exploring the world's wild places /

Eckstrom, Christine K.

Forgotten Edens : exploring the world's wild places / photographic essays by Frans Lanting ; text essays by Christine K. Eckstrom ; prepared by the Book Division, National Geographic Society. - Washington, D.C. : The National Geographic Society, c1993. - 202 p. : col. ill. 26 cm.

Is a part of a National Geographic series and has pages of beautiful, full- color photographs of northern Borneo, sub-Antartic isalnd of South Georgia, Hawaii,Madagscar, Okavangko Delta etc.. Though inhabited already by people, these places represents a possibility that a new concept of Eden will emerge. Its " photographic portfolios and text essays present the raw beauty and order of the natural world, as well as human concerns for the future of these unique and wild Edens...Journey to faraway corners of the earth for an ultimate portrait of some of the world's most spectacular places."

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Natural history
Natural history.

QH 45.5 / .Ec59 1993