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<p><P><b>with photographs by Nigel Hicks</b><P>China is a country of incredible diversity. Its widely varied habitats support a wealth of animals, birds, and plants that make this country biologically one of the richest on our planet. Illustrated with over 400 superb color photographs, <i>Wild China </i>surveys these treasures. It explores reserves where the elusive Giant Panda is now protected, alpine meadows that are a botanist's wonderland of floral species, wetlands that are home to a million birds, turtle islands, and tigers' stalking grounds.<P>Following a scene-setting introduction, chapters focus on each of the country's major ecological regions in turn, from the peaks of Qomolangma (Mount Everest) to the world's second-lowest point in the Turpan Basin, from tropical rain forests in the south to the permafrost of Manchuria and the cold dry desert of the northwest, from vast grasslands and alpine meadows to the teeming yellow waters of the Yangtze River.<P>A human population of over one billion people has put enormous pressure on this natural wealth. The need for economic development is balanced, however, by the Chinese people's long-standing love and appreciation of natural

Who reads Wild China (MIT Press)?

Author

text by John MacKinnon; photographs by Nigel Hicks

Publisher

The MIT Press in ass. with the World Wide Fund for Nature Hong Kong

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262133296

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Travel