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BL
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1012068
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b766438
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| Main Entry
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Dasmann, Raymond Fredric,1919-2002.
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| Title & Author
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Called by the wild : : the autobiography of a conservationist /\ Raymond F. Dasmann ; with a foreword by Paul Erhlich.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2002.
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1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0520229789
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: 0520927400
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: 1597345210
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: 9780520229785
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: 9780520927407
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: 9781597345217
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and index.
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| Contents
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FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; 1. Beginnings: The Lure of Wild Country; 2. School, the Woods, and War; 3. Red Arrows Never Glance; 4. Live Coward or Dead Hero?; 5. Elizabeth's Story; 6. Reunion; 7. Transition; 8. Deer; 9. Arcata; 10. Conservation by Slaughter; 11. Return to the United States; 12. Influences and Efforts; 13. Too Many, Too Much; 14. Uniting Nations; 15. Return to Africa; 16. Ecosystem and Biosphere People; 17. The Edges of the Sea; 18. The Incident in Kinshasha; 19. Return to the South Pacific; 20. Back to the Land; 21. Damming Paradise; 22. Other Ways of Life.
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| Abstract
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A pioneer in international conservation and wildlife ecology, Raymond Dasmann published his first book, the influential text Environmental Conservation, when the term "environment" was little known and "conservation" to most people simply meant keeping or storing.
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Dasmann, Raymond Fredric,1919-2002.
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Dasmann, Raymond Fredric,1919-2002
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Conservationists-- United States, Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Environmentalists Naturalists.
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Conservationists.
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NATURE-- Environmental Conservation Protection.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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333.7/2/092B
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QH31.D37A3 2002eb
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