Islands Beyond the HorizonRoger LovegroveReprintLabel: Oxford University PressDescription: Islands have an irresistible attraction and an enduring appeal. Naturalist Roger Lovegrove has visited many of the most remote islands in the world and in this book he takes the reader to twenty that fascinate him the most. Some are familiar but most are little known; they range from the storm-bound island of South Georgia and the ice-locked Arctic island of Wrangel to the wind-swept wave-lashed Mykines and St Kilda. The range is diverse and spectacular; and whether distant offshore inhabited uninhabited tropical or polar each is a unique self-contained habitat with a delicately-balanced ecosystem and each has its own mystique and ineffable magnetism. Central to each story is also the impact of human settlers. Lovegrove recounts unforgettable tales of human endeavour tragedy and heroism. But consistently he has to report on the mankind's negative impact on wildlife and habitats -- from the exploitation of birds for food to the elimination of native vegetation for crops. By looking not only at the biodiversity of each island but also the uneasy relationship between its wildlife and the involvement of man he provides a richly detailed account of each island its diverse wildlife its human history and the efforts of conservationists to retain these irreplaceable sites.
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