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Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
Library of America
April 2008
On Sale: April 17, 2008
900 pages
ISBN: 1598530208
EAN: 9781598530209
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
As America and the world grapple with the consequences of
global environmental change, writer and activist Bill
McKibben offers this unprecedented, provocative, and timely
anthology, gathering the best and most significant American
environmental writing from the last two centuries. Classics of the environmental imagination—the essays of
Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Burroughs; Aldo
Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac; Rachel Carson’s Silent
Spring—are set against the inspiring story of an emerging
activist movement, as revealed by newly uncovered reports
of pioneering campaigns for conservation, passages from
landmark legal opinions and legislation, and searing
protest speeches. Here are some of America’s greatest and
most impassioned writers, taking a turn toward nature and
recognizing the fragility of our situation on earth and the
urgency of the search for a sustainable way of life.
Thought-provoking essays on overpopulation, consumerism,
energy policy, and the nature of “nature” join ecologists’
memoirs and intimate sketches of the habitats of endangered
species. The anthology includes a detailed chronology of
the environmental movement and American environmental
history, as well as an 80-page color portfolio of
illustrations.
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