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Chapters: Purén, Villarrica, La Frontera, Chile, Victoria, Chile, Biobío River, Llaima, Lanín, Pino Hachado Pass, Sollipulli, Villarrica Lake, Budi Lake, Repocura River, Caburgua Lake, Icalma Lake, Villarrica National Park, Tavolevo River, Lonquimay, Sierra Nevada, La Imperial, Chile, Cordillera de Queule, Trancura River, Toltén River, Calafquén Lake, Culenco River, Caburgua-Huelemolle, Tolhuaca, Vergara River, Cordillera de Nahuelbuta, Fort Tolpán, Renaico River, Colico Lake, Imperial River, Quetrupillán, Conguillío Lake, Fort de La Encarnación, Allipén River, Trufultruful River, Fort Livén, Quepe River, Ojos Del Caburgua, Cautín River, Mamuil Malal Pass, Malleco River, Gastre Fault Zone, Calbuco River. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 111. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Purén -San Juan Bautista de Purén was a fort founded by Juan Gomez de Almagro, by order of the Governor of Chile Pedro de Valdivia, almost in the center of the northwest part of the valley of Purén, a little more than a kilometer from the left bank of the Purén River in the Purén valley and about six kilometers to the northeast of the present city of Purén. This fort was abandoned on the death of Pedro de Valdivia but was reoccupied by García Hurtado de Mendoza, after a bitter campaign with the followers of Caupolicán on May 20, 1558. Guanoalca captured and burned it in 1586. Rebuilt by Governor Alonso de Sotomayor in 1589, it received some improvements but it was always harassed by the Mapuche, and was again abandoned and set afire by them in the 1598 Mapuche rising that exploded after the Disaster of Curalaba. The fort was again restored under the governor Alonso Garcia Ramon in 1609, lost again and rebuilt by governor Alonso de Ribera in 1613 and was again abandoned in 1624. So it remained until 1665, when...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7020635 ... Read more

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The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there.Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free.Subtitle: Including Accounts Respecting the Geography, Geology, Statistics, Government, Finances, Agriculture, Manners, and Customs, and the Mining Operations in ChileVolume: 1 Original Publisher: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy Publication date: 1826Subjects: Mines and mineral resources; Chile; Argentina; La Plata (Argentina); Voyages and travels; Business ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: Including Accounts Respecting the Geography, Geology, Statistics, Government, Finances, Agriculture, Manners, and Customs, and the Mining Operations in Chile; Volume: 2; Original Publisher: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; Publication date: 1826; Subjects: Mines and mineral resources; Chile; Argentina; La Plata (Argentina); Business ... Read more

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This book provides a wonderful overview of the landscapes, vegetation types, and plants of the five regions of the world that have a Mediterranean climate. This climate of mild, rainy winters and dry, warm summers is found in California, Central Chile, the Cape Region of South Africa, the southwestern part of Australia and the Mediterranean Basin. The regions are widely separated and the flora of each is distinctive, having for the most part developed independently. Nevertheless, the plants share remarkably similar characteristics which allow them to thrive in these unusual conditions.Peter Dallman's non-technical prose is complemented by numerous maps, tables, and figures, and the book is richly illustrated with photographs of landscapes, plants, and flowers. With its detailed information on some of the world's most resilient plant life, this book will serve as an excellent reference for everyone interested in growing drought-resistant plants and as a naturalist's guide to these beautiful and unusual bioregions.For the growing number of travelers whose vacations focus on learning about and appreciating natural history, Dallman also includes a chapter on planning trips to the five Mediterranean regions. ... Read more

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Great overview of mediterranean climates
This book is great.It has plenty of pictures, diagrams and drawings.Most of the pictures are not in color, however, which is its biggest downfall.It is not a detailed evaluation of mediterranean climates nor is it a good plant ID book, but provides an excellent overview for both the layman and scientist.It provides informatin on the plants that make the mediterranean climate unique and the typical plant communities that are found in them.It is great for someone who doesn't want to get bogged down with individual species and wants to see how all the parts fit together.I first checked this book out of my local library and felt it would be such a good reference book for work, play and travel that I had to have it.The book uses the most scientific and inclusive use of the term Mediterranean which means you are going to get descriptions of plant communities from San Diego to Sacramento to San Francisco.For those of us that prefer the more exclusive definitions it may come as a shock that San Francisco and Sacramento could be considered mediterranean so I'm warning you now.I am currently using this book to help plan a trip to Australia as a supplement to Lonely Planet's travel guides.This book has inspired me to visit all the world's mediterranean climates at some point in my life and I'm not even a plant lover.

Author's Credentials
Peter Dallman, a retired pediatric doctor and docent at Strybing Aboretum in San Francisco, California, spent many years
studying plants and traveling the world to see them where they grow in the Mediterranean climate areas of the world. Prof. Robert Ornduff, the late director of the Univ. of California Botanical Garden, encouraged him to write about these
plants and his travels. The result is a book giving the reader the best armchair picture of the vegetation of a very special part of the world.

A thoughtful, beautifully produced book
This book falls into a category somewhere between botany, climatology, and geography; it looks at several different types of "mediterranean climate" around the world, and describes the different vegetational types within each region, explaining (in a scholarly but accessible way) why these plant communities look the way they do.

It's beautifully produced, with both climate maps and full-color illustrations of plants and plant communities.I know of no other book that explains the relationship between geography and botanical ecology this elegantly; it's a lot of fun to browse, and I would recommend it *very* highly to armchair travellers with botanical inclinations.

A "must" for horticulralists and gardeners.
Peter Dallman's Plant Life In The World's Mediterranean Climates covers plants of California, Australia, South Africa and the Mediterranean, and will prove more accessible to general audiences studying plants. Here arephotos, charts, and a host of details on plant communities and plant lifecommon to this climate, with chapters providing both individual regionaldetails and links between plants of each area. This is a highly recommendedpick not just for specialty libraries, but for general collections. ... Read more

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A core textbook series that aims to provide students with accessible, up-to-date accounts of Ecogeography - the marriage of ecology with geography - in the primary terrestrial and marine environments. This is the first book in the series on Mediterranean Ecogeography. Biological diversity in the Mediterranean Basin is amongst the highest of any region on earth, both in terms of total species numbers and endemism. The flora is estimated at about 25,000 species of flowering plants and ferns, compared with about 6000 species in non-Mediterranean Europe. About 50% of these are endemic. Diversity amongst vertebrate animals is also high, though endemism rates are lower than for plants. The high levels of diversity contribute to, and are a reflection of, the considerable variability of landscape. This results from a combination of factors including geological and tectonic history, relief and physiography, climate, geomorphological processes, hydrology, soils, the incidence of fires and impact of human activities. The landscapes of the Mediterranean Basin are thus varied and fragmented; a mosaic of ecosystems and communities.Mediterranean Ecogeography aims to examine and explain this heterogeneity, and the approach is focused on the ecogeography of the region. Analysing the factors which account for the present distributions of plants and animals, and the functioning of ecosystems within the Mediterranean Basin can help in the understanding of the relationship between people and natural ecosystems. A key to the conservation of these ecosystems is the wise use of resources, biological and physical. In addition, it is vital to assess how the natural environments of the region will respond to further change. In the last twenty years, understanding of the functioning of mediterranean-type ecosystems has advanced through several international projects. This book draws upon the findings of these, and other research in the Mediterranean Basin, to present a comprehensive text on a key region of the world, and the problems and prospects of its environmental exploitation. ... Read more

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The 2010 Chile earthquake occurred off the coast ofthe Maule Region of Chile on February 27, 2010, at03:34 local time (06:34 UTC), rating a magnitude of8.8 on the moment magnitude scale and lasting forabout three minutes. The cities experiencing thestrongest shaking—VIII (Destructive) on the Mercalliintensity scale—were Talcahuano, Arauco, Lota,Chiguayante, Cañete, and San Antonio. The earthquakewas felt in the capital Santiago at Mercalliintensity scale VII (Very Strong). Tremors were feltin many Argentine cities, including Buenos Aires,Córdoba, Mendoza and La Rioja. Tremors were felt asfar north as the city of Ica in southern Peru.Tsunami warnings were issued in 53 countries, and atsunami was recorded, with amplitude of up to 2.6 m(8 ft 6 in) high, in the sea at Valparaíso, Chile.President Michelle Bachelet declared a "state ofcatastrophe". She also confirmed the deaths of atleast 723 people. Many more have been reportedmissing. ... Read more

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In the drylands of northern Chile land was utilizedas a source of minerals, meat, wheat, and timbersince the colonial period. These extractiveprocesses caused the destruction of most of thenatural vegetation. Impacts of past use havepersisted until today, partly because of multi-yeardry spells. Landsat satellite imagery shows thatvegetation response increases marginally duringrainy years, mainly explained by the planting ofrainfed wheat, while natural vegetation respondsweakly on both private and communal lands. In the agricultural communes families are poor or indigent. Three communes were surveyed, anda vulnerability index was constructed. Findings showthat access to productive resources is a keydeterminant of differential vulnerability:inequitable distribution of land, agriculturalcredit, water, greenhouses, irrigationtechnology, chemicals, or improved seed. The mostvulnerable families depend on off-farm employmentprovided by private agriculture. Governmentalresponse is reactive based on emergency relief, andthere is no drought planning, nor consideration ofdifferential levels of vulnerability. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The city and municipality of Puebla is the capital of the state of Puebla, and one of the five most important colonial cities in Mexico. It is located to the east of Mexico City and west of the port of Veracruz, on the main route between the two. The city was founded in 1531 in an area called Cuetlaxcoapan which means ?where serpents change their skin.? This valley was not populated in the 16th century as in the pre-Hispanic period, this area was primarily used to the ?Flower Wars? between a number of populations. Due it its history and architectural styles ranging from Renaissance to Mexican Baroque, the city was named a World Heritage Site in 1987. The city is also famous for mole poblano, chiles en nogada and Talavera pottery. However, most of its economy is based on industry. ... Read more

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The Atacama border dispute was a dispute between Chile and Bolivia in the 1800s that ended in the transfer to Chile of all of the Bolivian Coast and the southern tip of Bolivia's ally Peru through the Treaty of Ancón with Peru and the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1904 between Chile and Bolivia after the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). Some consider the dispute is still ongoing as Bolivia still claims a sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean. The conflict takes name from the Atacama Desert on which lies the disputed territory. From the Chilean annexation of the Bolivian coast in 1879 the Puna de Atacama dispute dispute arose due to Bolivian transfers of land to both Argentina and Chile, this spin-off dispute was settled in 1899. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Theclimate of Chile comprises a wide range ofweather conditions across a large geographic scale,extending across 38 degrees in latitude, makinggeneralisations difficult. According to the Köppensystem, Chile within its borders hosts at leastseven major climatic subtypes, ranging from desertin the north, to alpine tundra and glaciersin theeast and southeast, humid subtropical in EasterIsland, Oceanic in the south and mediterraneanclimate in central Chile. There are four seasons inmost of the country: summer (December to February),autumn (March to May), winter (June to August), andspring (September to November). On a synoptic scalethe most important factors that controls the climatein Chile are the Pacific Anticyclone, the southerncircumpolar low pressure area, the cold Humboldtcurrent, the Chilean Coast Range and the AndesMountains. Despite Chile's narrowness, some interiorregions may experience wide temperature oscillationsand cities such as San Pedro de Atacama, may evenexperience a continental climate. ... Read more