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Disappearing Destinations

37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them

By Kimberly Lisagor and Heather Hansen

By Kimberly Lisagor and Heather Hansen

By Kimberly Lisagor

By Kimberly Lisagor

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    About Disappearing Destinations

    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 can float in a sea shimmering with bioluminescent life, but sediment being churned up by development is killing the dinoflagellates that produce the eerie and beautiful glow. And in the Congo Basin of Africa, where great apes roam freely in lush, verdant rainforests, logging is quickly destroying the vast life-giving canopies. These places-along with many others across the globe-are changing as we speak due to global warming, environmental degradation, overuse, and natural causes.

    From the Boreal Forests in Finland to the Yangtze River Valley in China, 37 Places to See Before They Disappear is a treasure trove of geographic wonder, and a guide to these threatened destinations and what is being done to save them.

    About Disappearing Destinations

    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 can float in a sea shimmering with bioluminescent life, but sediment being churned up by development is killing the dinoflagellates that produce the eerie and beautiful glow. And in the Congo Basin of Africa, where great apes roam freely in lush, verdant rainforests, logging is quickly destroying the vast life-giving canopies. These places-along with many others across the globe-are changing as we speak due to global warming, environmental degradation, overuse, and natural causes.

    From the Boreal Forests in Finland to the Yangtze River Valley in China, 37 Places to See Before They Disappear is a treasure trove of geographic wonder, and a guide to these threatened destinations and what is being done to save them.

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    About Kimberly Lisagor

    Kimberly Lisagor is a freelance journalist who has written about travel and the environment for Outside, Mother Jones, Men’s Journal,… More about Kimberly Lisagor

    About Heather Hansen

    Heather Hansen has worked on staff at Boston magazine, the Sunday Independent (Johannesburg, South Africa) and the Provincetown Banner, whereshe… More about Heather Hansen

    About Kimberly Lisagor

    Kimberly Lisagor is a freelance journalist who has written about travel and the environment for Outside, Mother Jones, Men’s Journal, NationalGeographic Adventure, USA Weekend, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and others. She is the author of Outside’s Wilderness… More about Kimberly Lisagor

    Product Details

    Category: Science | Specialty Travel

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 08, 2008 | 400 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307277367

    Category: Science | Specialty Travel

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 08, 2008 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9780307389282
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    Table Of Contents

    Foreword By Pico Iyer
    Introduction


    NORTH AMERICA

    United States
    Appalachia
    Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska
    The Cascades and Mount Rainier, Washington
    Casco Bay, Maine
    The Everglades, Florida
    Glacier National Park, Montana
    Great Smoky Mountains National Park
    Inner and Outer Banks, North Carolina
    Napa Valley, California
    Oahu, Hawaii
    The Rio Grande
    Yellowstone National Park

    Canada
    Banks Island, Northwest Territories
    Hudson Bay, Manitoba and Nunavut
    Inside Passage, British Columbia

    The Caribbean
    Bioluminescent Bays, Puerto Rico
    Roatán, Honduras
    Turks and Caicos Islands

    SOUTH AMERICA
    Amazon Basin
    Aysén, Patagonia, Chile
    Chacaltaya, Bolivia
    Galápagos, Ecuador
    Machu Picchu, Peru

    EUROPE & THE MIDDLE EAST
    The Alps
    Boreal Forest, Lapland, Finland
    Canary Islands, Spain
    Danube River and Delta
    Dead Sea, Israel and Jordan
    Venice, Italy

    AFRICA
    Congo Basin, Central Africa
    Maasailand, Kenya
    Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
    Timbuktu, Mali

    ASIA, PACIFIC ISLANDS, AND AUSTRALIA
    Everest National Park, Nepal
    Tuvalu and Maldives
    Yangtze River Valley, China
    Great Barrier Reef, Australia

    Acknowledgments
    Illustration Credits
    Appendix A: Responsible Travel Resources
    Appendix B: Regional Advocacy Organizations

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