THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION: TRAVELS WITH ENDURING PEOPLE IN VANISHING LANDS
Book ID/图书代码： 03360014B68566
English Summary/英文概要： In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge emerge a larger story about sustainability and the future of the planet. Pretty addresses not only current threats to natural and cultural diversity but also the unsustainability of modern lifestyles typical of industrialized countries. In a very real sense, Pretty discovers, what we manage to preserve now may well save us later.
Jules Pretty’s travels take him among the Maori people along the coasts of the Pacific, into the mountains of China, and across petroglyph-rich deserts of Australia. He treks with nomads over the continent-wide steppes of Tuva in southern Siberia, walks and boats in the wildlife-rich inland swamps of southern Africa, and experiences the Arctic with ice fishermen in Finland. He explores the coasts and inland marshes of eastern England and Northern Ireland and accompanies Innu people across the taiga’s snowy forests and the lakes of the Labrador interior. Pretty concludes his global journey immersed in the discrete cultures and landscapes embedded within the American landscape: the small farms of the Amish, the swamps of the Cajuns in the deep South, and the deserts of California.
The diverse people Pretty meets in The Edge of Extinction display deep pride in their relationships with the land and are only willing to join with the modern world on their own terms. By the examples they set, they offer valuable lessons for anyone seeking to find harmony in a world cracking under the pressures of apparently insatiable consumption patterns of the affluent.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在《灭绝的边缘》中，朱尔斯·普雷迪探索了世界各地的一些环境和文化里的生活和变化，带领我们踏上一系列引人注目的旅程，穿过沙漠，海岸，山脉，草原，雪景，沼泽和农场，来展示有许多不同的与大自然合作而生存的方式。从这些靠近土地和边缘生活的人类的事例中展现了一个更大关于可持续发展和地球未来的故事。普雷迪不仅解决当前威胁自然和文化多样性的问题，还有工业化国家中典型现代生活方式的不可持续性问题。从现实的意义上说，普雷迪揭示了我们现在设法保护的可能回拯救我们的后代。
朱尔斯·普雷迪的旅行带领他来到毛利人之中，沿着太平洋海岸进入中国的山脉，并穿过澳大利亚岩画丰富的沙漠。他与游牧民族跋涉在横跨整个欧洲大陆的西伯利亚南部的图瓦草原，在野生动物资源丰富的非洲南部的内陆沼泽行走和划船，和芬兰渔民一起体验北极。他探讨了东英格兰与北爱尔兰的海岸和内陆沼泽，并跟随人们穿过拉布拉多内部白雪皑皑的针叶林带和湖泊。普雷迪以沉浸在嵌入美国景观的离散文化和自然风景结束他的环球之旅：亚米希亚人的小农场，南部沼泽的卡津人和加利福尼亚的沙漠。
普雷迪在《灭绝的边缘》中遇到的不同人表达了他们与土地关系的深深自豪之情，并且只愿意按照自己的方式加入现代化世界。他们通过树立的例子，为任何在永不满足的消费模式的富裕压力下想要找到一个和谐世界的人提供宝贵的经验教训。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“朱尔斯是严肃的思想家和优秀的作家。没有什么能像这本书一样了，它将受到广泛阅读和好评。”——比尔·麦吉
“朱尔斯是一位伟大的环境科学家和环境主义者。这本书是一个宝库。它记载了文化与生态的悲剧性损失，以及记载了一个拥有坚定的承诺和理性的希望的世界。文字间充满愉快的短语，精心锻造的节奏，以及激情和惊喜的时刻。也充满了朱尔斯在人生之旅中遇到的迷人的人，以敏感性和洞察力书写。普雷迪的书写至始至终都贯穿局部和超然，非现代和现代化，过去和未来。《灭绝的边缘》是一首对我们失去的奇迹的崇高挽歌。读它。思考。然后行动。”——迈克尔·M·贝尔，威勒斯的社区和环境研究领域的杰出教授，麦迪逊-威斯康星大学，《环境社会的邀请》的作者
"Jules Pretty is both a serious thinker and a fine writer. There’s nothing like this book, and it will be widely read and well regarded."—Bill McKibben
"Jules Pretty is a great environmental scientist who is also a great environmental humanist. This book is a treasure. It chronicles the tragic loss of cultures and their ecologies, but it also chronicles a world of steadfast commitments and reasoned hopes. The writing is full of delightful turns of phrase, finely wrought rhythms, and moments of passion and surprise. It is also full of the fascinating people Pretty has met in a lifetime of travel, painted with sensitivity and insight. Pretty speaks throughout to the local and the transcendent, the nonmodern and the modern, the past and the future. The Edge of Extinction is a sublime elegy to the wonders we are losing. Read it. Think on it. Then act on it."—Michael M. Bell, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Community and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, author of An Invitation to Environmental Sociology
About the Author/作者介绍： 朱尔斯·普雷迪是埃塞克斯大学的环境与社会学教授。他是许多书籍的作者，包括《地球只有忍受》，《农业》和《再生农业》。
Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex. He is the author of many books, including The Earth Only Endures, Agri-Culture, and Regenerating Agriculture.
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