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    Floating Coast

    Jun 04, 2020 2 minutes
    BATHSHEBA DEMUTH

    W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. $27.95, 416 pages.

    “WHAT IS THE NATURE of history when nature is a part of what makes history?” To answer this question, environmental historian Bathsheba Demuth explores the nineteenth- and twentieth-century interplay of ideology and ecology in Beringia, the Arctic region spanning modern-day Russia and America.

    Demuth left the Midwest

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