Graham Huggan

Gebundenes Buch

Nature's Saviours

Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age

Beschreibung

Celebrity conservationists have played a major role in drawing attention to an increasingly threatened natural world. Through television they have brought the crises of this world directly into the public gaze. This book is one of the first to address this contribution, focusing on key figures such as David Attenborough and Steve Irwin.

Autor

Graham Huggan is Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Leeds, UK. His research spans the entire field of comparative postcolonial literary/cultural studies, with further interests in the areas of ecocriticism, travel writing, short fiction, and film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780415519137
• ISBN-10: 0415519136
• Artikelnr.: 37228630