(Free and download) Astonishing Legends Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them (Vintage Departures)
| #2982832 in Books | 2008-04-08 | 2008-04-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.99 x.92 x5.06l,.94 | File Name: 0307277364 | 400 pages
||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A Pragmatic Call for Responsible Tourism|By Henry M. Trotter|Disappearing Destinations is a timely book about the impact of our actions on the places that we love. Through profiles of 37 iconic travel destinations--like the Florida Everglades, the island of Oahu, Yellowstone National Park, the Basin, Machu Picchu, the Canary Islands, the Congo Basin, and the Yangtze River--Li|From Publishers Weekly|The expression tourist hot spot takes on new meaning in this fact-packed survey of travel destinations endangered by global warming, environmental degradation, predatory logging, mining and fishing and the impact of too many tourists. In
A beautiful and memorable look at some of the most gorgeous endangered places on the planet.
Machu Picchu is a mesmerizing, ancient Incan city tucked away in the mountains of Peru, but it is rapidly being worn down by the thousands of feet treading across its stones. Glacier National Park is a destination long known for the stunning beauty of its ice floes, but in our lifetimes it will have no glaciers due to global warming. In the biobays of Puerto Rico swimmers...
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You easily download any file type for your gadget.Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them (Vintage Departures) | Kimberly Lisagor, Heather Hansen. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!