Silver Lining
Floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes--we are quick to call them ''''natural disasters.'''' But are they? Did the great fires that swept Yellowstone in 1988 devastate the park, or did they just ravage our image of the park as a fixed, unchanging national treasure? This lucid, lively book reveals the shortsightedness behind conceiving of such events as disastrous to nature. Ind...
Floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes--we are quick to call them ''''natural disasters.'''' But are they? Did the great fires that swept Yellowstone in 1988 devastate the park, or did they just ravage our image of the park as a fixed, unchanging national treasure? This lucid, lively book reveals the shortsightedness behind conceiving of such events as disastrous to nature. Ind...
