[PDF.74sh] The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China

The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China

[PDF.yq35] The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China

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 | #518511 in Books |  2006-09-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.58 x5.82 x8.22l,1.73 | File type: PDF | 592 pages

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||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Not really about elephants, but fascinating just the same|By BD|Mark Elvin's book is not really about elephants. The elephants are a symbol for the retreat of nature from China. What the book makes clear is that China's environmental disaster is not a product of the 20th century, but dates back thousands of years when the early dynasties stamped out a culture of hunter-gather|From Scientific American|Who knew that elephant trunk tastes like piglet? Or that more than a millennium ago, a writer declared that Chinese "competed to eat their trunks, the taste of which is said to be fatty and crisp, and to be particularly well suited to be