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Also by Bill Mckibben:

Eaarth, April 2010
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American Earth, April 2008
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Deep Economy, March 2008
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The End of Nature, August 1997
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AMERICAN EARTH
By: Bill Mckibben

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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All Things Considered - July 24, 2008