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Field Notes from a Catastrophe : Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Overview
A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe).
Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today. But in the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding grows. Now, Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career. She has added a chapter bringing things up-to-date on the existing text, plus three new chapters--on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral--making it, again, a must-read for our moment.Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9781620409886
- ISBN-10: 1620409887
- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
- Publish Date: February 2015
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 320
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