{"product_id":"floating-coast-an-environmental-history-of-the-bering-strait","title":"Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2021 AHA John H. Dunning Prize\u003cbr\u003e\nLonglisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize\u003cbr\u003e\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by  Nature , NPR,  Library Journal , and  Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A monument to a people and their land… an allegory of the world we have created.\" ―Sven Beckert, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist  Empire of Cotton: A Global History\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFloating Coast  is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans―the Iñupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia―before American and European colonization. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, Bathsheba Demuth presents a profound tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that human ambition has brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e18 photographs; 7 maps\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":53058646573343,"sku":"A8725","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0957\/0546\/5119\/files\/71kP7budPzL._SX1500.jpg?v=1792837163","url":"https:\/\/lumobook.store\/products\/floating-coast-an-environmental-history-of-the-bering-strait","provider":"LumoBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}