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Marginlands : Indian landscapes on the brink / Arati Kumar-Rao.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi : Picador India, 2023Copyright date: �2023Description: x, 240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9395624434
  • 9789395624435
Other title:
  • Indian landscapes on the brink
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.70954 23/eng/20240417
LOC classification:
  • GE160.I4 K865 2023
Contents:
part I. The desert. A liquid memory -- The landscape of loss -- part II. Veins of our land. The Farakka folly -- A fleeting flash of fin -- Hunting with dolphins -- Fading to black -- part III. An eroding margin. On the brink of brine -- Jewels by the sea -- Eating up the coast -- The tiger's lair -- part IV. The third pole. When the glaciers disappear -- A coup on the roof of the world -- Into the hidden land -- part V. The sound of cities. Where the wild things still are -- Listening to landscapes -- Epilogue: Learning to see.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-238).

part I. The desert. A liquid memory -- The landscape of loss -- part II. Veins of our land. The Farakka folly -- A fleeting flash of fin -- Hunting with dolphins -- Fading to black -- part III. An eroding margin. On the brink of brine -- Jewels by the sea -- Eating up the coast -- The tiger's lair -- part IV. The third pole. When the glaciers disappear -- A coup on the roof of the world -- Into the hidden land -- part V. The sound of cities. Where the wild things still are -- Listening to landscapes -- Epilogue: Learning to see.

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