Free Download Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BX4NNL8G | 2023 | 16 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 469 MB
Author: M. Kat Anderson
Narrator: Leslie Howard
John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today-that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts.