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Wild Maps for Curious Minds 100 New Ways to See the Natural World

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

13.12.2022

Abbildungen

100 color maps

Illustriert von

Manuel Bortoletti

Verlag

Workman

Seitenzahl

192

Maße (L/B/H)

23,2/18,1/2 cm

Gewicht

640 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-61519-892-4

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

13.12.2022

Abbildungen

100 color maps

Illustriert von

Manuel Bortoletti

Verlag

Workman

Seitenzahl

192

Maße (L/B/H)

23,2/18,1/2 cm

Gewicht

640 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-61519-892-4

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Table of Contents

    Chapter 1: ANCIENT HISTORY
    1 Empire of the woolly mammoth
    2 The spread of man and the extinction of large mammals
    3 North America’s super-volcanoes
    4 When the English Channel was a mighty river
    5 The rise and fall of Europe’s forests 
    6 Where bears and wolves once ruled
    7 The fall of the hunter-gatherer
    8 The rise of the farmer

    Chapter 2: THE GEOGRAPHY LESSON
    9 These spheres represent all the water and air on Earth
    10 I can’t see the sea from here
    11 Which countries lie directly east and west of the Americas?
    12 What Antarctica looks like beneath the ice
    13 The nations with no sea view
    14 All the rivers in the world
    15 The surprisingly few countries named after animals
    16 The island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island
    17 How deep is the Earth?
    18 The hemisphere of water
    19 The hemisphere of land
    20 All the lakes in the world
    21 How the natural world flies its flag
    22 Here there be dragons…

    Chapter 3: EARTH’S RICH BOUNTY
    23 Who is rich in water?
    24 How wind could power the world
    25 The hotspots in Earth’s crust that could power humanity
    26 The sunny places that could help fuel the world
    27 Where do we get our sparklers?
    28 Who are the gold diggers?
    29 China grows 23 million tons of garlic a year – three times more than the rest of the world
    30 Who is behind the great avocado boom?
    31 Who eats their greens?
    32 Who eats the most fruit?
    33 The milk drinkers  
    34 Where do all the turkeys live?
     
    Chapter 4: OUT AND ABOUT
    35 If every human who ever lived crowded into one place  
    36 Distribution of the Great Apes  
    37 Where cattle, sheep, or pigs outnumber people   
    38 Here’s where to see a giant panda outside China  
    39 Which Americans go on wildlife-watching adventures?
    40 All the private gardens in the UK   
    41 Follow your nose: the longest walk in a straight line  
    42 Britain’s national parks cover an area 15 times larger than London   
    43 Where Americans get their wilderness  
    44 Where to live if you hate snakes   
    45 How Americans die in their national parks   
    46 The secret rivers of London  
    47 Not every giraffe looks alike
    48 How fast are you spinning?   

    Chapter 5: EXTREME NATURE
    49 The oldest living trees in the world    
    50 Warning! Dangerous animals at work  
    51 Watch your step – these creatures are the tiniest of their kind   
    52 How far are you from an earthquake zone?   
    53 Where are people most at risk from natural disasters?   
    54 Where to see a solar eclipse in the next decade   
    55 Ocean deep, mountain high
    56 The highs and lows of Europe
    57 The largest iceberg ever recorded was bigger than Corsica and Mallorca   

    Chapter 6: THE WEATHER REPORT
    58 Which is the wettest half of the year in North America?   
    59 It’s raining, but is it pouring?    
    60 The wettest places in Europe   
    61 Where it might snow on Christmas Day across North America  
    62 Dreaming of a White Christmas   

    Chapter 7: ALL AT SEA
    63 Imagine all the oceans as a single body of water   
    64 Where the oceans get their water   
    65 Who has kept dolphins in captivity?   
    66 Captain Ahab’s fatal pursuit of Moby Dick, the Great White Whale   
    67 Point Nemo – the most remote place on Earth   
    68 The tiny creek that connects the Atlantic and Pacific   
    69 The lighthouses of Britain   

    Chapter 8: USING AND ABUSING NATURE
    70 Where rhinos have been poached   
    71 Who eats the most meat?    
    72 Where American whaling ships hunted in the 19th century   
    73 Who has been killing whales since the ban?   
    74 We are losing less forest than before   
    75 The Chernobyl disaster created a nature reserve six times the size of New York City  
    76 Who are the world’s cat people?   
    77 Who let the dogs out?   
    78 All the land in the UK that has been built on  
    79 Where do America’s hunters live?
      
    Chapter 9: THE PLANET IN PERIL
    80 How much forest have we destroyed?  
    81 Just a few of the hundreds of species that have become extinct in the 21st century   
    82 The disappearing Aral Sea   
    83 Not everyone believes in the climate crisis   
    84 A rapidly warming world   
    85 North America’s summers are getting longer
    86 … and its winters are getting much shorter
    87 Europe’s summers are getting longer
    88 … and its winters are getting much shorter
    89 Who is at risk from rising seas?   
    90 How much of Britain and Ireland might be under water by 2050   

    Chapter 10: THE FINAL FRONTIER
    91 The 70 trees that have been to the Moon   
    92 Guinea pigs in space!   
    93 The Mars volcano Olympus Mons is as big as Arizona  
    94 Jupiter’s Great Red Spot could swallow the Earth   
    95 How big is Pluto?  
    96 Australia boldly goes   
    97 The rise of the Luna girls   
    98 Welcome to Planet Rock   
    99 The brightest star in our night sky is a lot bigger than the Sun   
    100 All the forests on Earth would cover the entire surface of the Moon (and then some)  
     
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