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Mammoth-Rider at Flood's Edge
Geomorphology and Archaeofuturist Transportation
Av Jacob Shell
Häftad, 2027
312 kr
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When floodwaters rise, roads fail, but horses, camels, and elephants can still move through the shallows. For most of human history large riding animals made mobility possible across landscapes too waterlogged or unstable to support fixed infrastructure. Their ability to ford floodplains, marshes, …
Transportation and Revolt
Av Jacob Shell
E-bok, 2015
424 kr
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How political regimes have responded when certain modes of transportation—from carrier pigeons to canal boats—have been associated with politically subversive activities. During World War I, German soldiers shot down carrier pigeons for fear the birds were carrying enemy communiqués; in Mexico, the …
Giants of the Monsoon Forest
Living and Working with Elephants
Av Jacob Shell
Inbunden, 2019
260 kr
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From the kings of the Indus Valley to Hannibal’s Alpine cavalry, humans have been living and working with elephants for millennia. In Giants of the Monsoon Forest, Jacob Shell travels to communities that still rely on this ancient partnership. After the 2004 tsunami, Indonesian officials deployed …
Giants of the Monsoon Forest
Living and Working with Elephants
Av Jacob Shell
Häftad, 2020
182 kr
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For more than a thousand years, people in the rainforests of India and Burma have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods (often illicitly) under cover of the forest canopy. Jacob Shell takes us deep into this strange elephant country to explore the …
Transportation and Revolt
Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility
Av Jacob Shell
Inbunden, 2015
324 kr
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