商品簡介
From the dawn of humanity to the present day, people always have had to contend with the unpredictable forces of nature. Vann (geography, U. of The Cumberlands) offers a somewhat different perspective on those ever-present challenges in his overview of human population shifts and humanity's fragile relationship with climate change and geography. He illustrates why our ancestors wandered in search of what he describes as natural utopias, and based on ancient sources like the Bible and Qu'ran, how different climates of the past were from those we experience today--and how past civilizations dealt with nature and how we are attempting to do so now. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Barry A. Vann is professor of geography and higher education at the University of the Cumberlands. He is the author of Puritan Islam: The Geoexpansion of the Muslim World; Rediscovering the South’s Celtic Heritage; In Searc-h of Ulster-Scots Land: The Birth and Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic People; and (with Ellsworth Huntington) Geography toward History: Studies in the Mediterranean Basin and Mesopotamia.
