Two Eagles/Dos Aguilas – The Natural World of the United States–Mexico Borderlands: A Natural History of the United States Mexico Borderlands - Hardcover

Blake, Tupper Ansell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520084829 ISBN 13: 9780520084827

Publisher: University of California Press, 1994

Synopsis

Two kinds of experiences await the reader in this book - those for the eye and those for the mind. Tupper Ansel Blake's photography reveals the remarkable diversity of life and terrain within the lands that lie along the United States-Mexico border; whilst Peter Steinhart's text provides regional history, environmental awareness, and an understanding of the role that humans have played there. The 2000-mile swath shared by the United States and Mexico is often dismissed as one of worthless scrub, or as a hostile no-man's-land populated by border patrols and furtive immigrants. It is in fact among the richest, most biologically diverse, and most endangered areas in all of North America. Tropical and temperate zones overlap in the borderlands - ocelots and parrots, black bears and elk all make their homes there. It is a region not just of cactus and mesquite, but of pine forests, oak woodlands, lush grasslands, and riverside groves of cottonwood and sycamore. Equally diverse are the people of the borderlands, many of whom share a long heritage of living with the land without despoiling it. The recent North American Free Trade Agreement is a reminder that the region's human and natural history cannot be separated, and that the political boundary between the two nations casts a long shadow over the bald eagle of the United States and the caracara, the eagle of Mexico.

About this title

Review:

"This magnificant volume transports us to one of the most biologically diverse--and endangered--areas. . . . Stunning photography."--"Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Tupper Ansel Blake is a prize-winning wildlife photographer and coauthor of Wild California: Vanishing Lands, Vanishing Wildlife (California, 1985). Peter Steinhart is a freelance writer specializing in natural history and environmental issues. He was an editor and long-time contributor to Audubon magazine. Blake and Steinhart are coauthors of Tracks in the Sky: Wildlife and Wetlands of the Pacific Flyway (1987). John C. Sawhill is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Nature Conservancy.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0520084829
• ISBN 13: 9780520084827
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 204