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Dreaming the Biosphere
Rebecca Reider
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Description for Dreaming the Biosphere
Paperback. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PSAF; RB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
Biosphere rises from southern Arizona's high desert like a bizarre hybrid spaceship and greenhouse. Packed with more than 3,800 carefully selected plant, animal, and insect species, this mega-terrarium is one of the world's most biodiverse, lush, and artificial wildernesses. Only recently transformed from an abandoned ghost dome to a University of Arizona research center, the site was the setting of a grand drama about humans and ecology at the end of the twentieth century.
The seeds of Biosphere 2 sprouted in the 1970s at Synergia, a desert ranch in New Mexico where John Allen and a handful of dreamers ... Read more
Biosphere rises from southern Arizona's high desert like a bizarre hybrid spaceship and greenhouse. Packed with more than 3,800 carefully selected plant, animal, and insect species, this mega-terrarium is one of the world's most biodiverse, lush, and artificial wildernesses. Only recently transformed from an abandoned ghost dome to a University of Arizona research center, the site was the setting of a grand drama about humans and ecology at the end of the twentieth century.
The seeds of Biosphere 2 sprouted in the 1970s at Synergia, a desert ranch in New Mexico where John Allen and a handful of dreamers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826346742
SKU
V9780826346742
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