With the Klondike gold rush, a struggle erupted in Alaska between the protection of big game animals and man’s economic ambitions, a riveting story chronicled by Morgan Sherwood in Big Game in Alaska In concise and clear prose, Sherwood charts the histor of this environmental and political conflict, examining the creation of the Alaska Game одшжы Commission in the early 1930s, the use of distorted science and menacing technologies, the antipathy of farmers and fishermen toward animals, and the prevailing belie in man’s right to shoot wild animals at will An incisive historical study of the flawed attempts to govern big game predation, Big Game in Alaska will be essential reading for historians and environmentalists alike.  Gravity2008 г Мягкая обложка, 224 стр ISBN 160223034X.