Wild Places (Marshall Travel Atlas S.)

by RogerFew (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $8.35

  This is a reference to over 50 of the last truly wild places of the planet. The book contains an 11-page gazetteer which provides insights into more than 80 other wild places, including officially recognized World Heritage Sites and Wilderness Areas. Illustrated features consider the human dimension and the interaction between indigenous peoples and nature. Locator maps direct the reader to each area, and specially designed eco-diagrams reveal the interlocking factors that shape the terrain and climate of a particular region. Photography and explanatory side-boxes identify the hardy animals and plants that have adapted to the wilderness. The atlas offers the ecologically-minded world traveller a chance to discover the diversity of nature's untouched realms. Readers traverse the globe through seven chapters that capture more than 40 wilderness zones in photographs and descriptive essays. There is coverage of habitats as forbidding as the Tibesti Mountains deep in Africa's Sahara Desert, or the peaks and plateaux of Tadzhikistan's Pamirs. There are places as rarefied as the rainforest at the tip of Australia's Cape York or Georgia's primeval Okefenokee Swamp.