Reading the Entrails: An Alberta Ecohistory

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Before the Fall of Imperial Rome, priests cast the internal organs of sacrificial animals on temple floors, claiming to be able to divine the future from these entrails. By probing the remains of Albertas past sacrifices reading her entrails Norman Conrad believes that we might dimly see at apparition of Albertas future. This controversial book vividly portrays the history of land and life in Alberta, from the Ice Ages to the present. Making no apology for his criticism of government, regulators and large corporations, Norman Conrad makes a strident plea for Albertas dangerously imperiled environment and presents a model that can be applied anywhere.

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