The Tarball Chronicles
Autor David Gessneren Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 sep 2011
Preț: 133.87 lei
Puncte Express: 201
Carte indisponibilă temporar
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Se trimite...
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781571313331
ISBN-10: 1571313338
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 148 x 223 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Milkweed Editions
ISBN-10: 1571313338
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 148 x 223 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Milkweed Editions
Recenzii
“Anyone who wanted a first-hand look at the Gulf after the news cycle ended will find it here . . . brilliant.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"If you read only one book about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill this year, it should be this one. If you plan not to read any books about it, make an exception for this blunt, funny, eye-opening quest to find the real stories behind the Gulf crisis." —Shelf Awareness
“Expressive and adventurous. A profoundly personal inquiry into the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe unique in its hands-on immediacy and far-ranging ruminations.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist
“Brilliant—the best and most original writing coming out of the Gulf.”—Scott Dodd, OnEarth magazine, Natural Resources Defense Council
“David Gessner is on a roll.” —Times-Picayune
“Gessner has the heart and mind of an investigative journalist. . . . Not everyone will be pleased with this Jeremiah in our midst, but the word is a fire and a hammer, and Gessner delivers it well.” —Mobile Press-Register
“An expert naturalist, he not only observes but talks with people who are in the know—forceful, insightful, blood-and-guts people who will speak their minds (like David). There is grit and heartbreak and energy in just about everything he writes.”—Clyde Edgerton, the author of Lunch at the Piccadilly and Walking Across Egypt
“Vivid, funny, opinionated, poignant, and mold breaking—Gessner takes us deep into the environmental and personal tragedies of the spill.” —Jim Campbell, the author of The Final Frontiersman
“Plenty of people are writing about the BP oil disaster, but few indeed will be able to make us feel the reality of it like David Gessner can. The likelihood that his account will also be action-filled and darkly funny is pure bonus.” —John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Blood Horses
“In this highly readable, firsthand account of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, David Gessner considers the catastrophe in the Gulf as a symptom of even bigger economic and cultural challenges that loom in our future. This excellent book is not judgmental, but thought provoking and well worth reading.” —David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds
"If you read only one book about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill this year, it should be this one. If you plan not to read any books about it, make an exception for this blunt, funny, eye-opening quest to find the real stories behind the Gulf crisis." —Shelf Awareness
“Expressive and adventurous. A profoundly personal inquiry into the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe unique in its hands-on immediacy and far-ranging ruminations.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist
“Brilliant—the best and most original writing coming out of the Gulf.”—Scott Dodd, OnEarth magazine, Natural Resources Defense Council
“David Gessner is on a roll.” —Times-Picayune
“Gessner has the heart and mind of an investigative journalist. . . . Not everyone will be pleased with this Jeremiah in our midst, but the word is a fire and a hammer, and Gessner delivers it well.” —Mobile Press-Register
“An expert naturalist, he not only observes but talks with people who are in the know—forceful, insightful, blood-and-guts people who will speak their minds (like David). There is grit and heartbreak and energy in just about everything he writes.”—Clyde Edgerton, the author of Lunch at the Piccadilly and Walking Across Egypt
“Vivid, funny, opinionated, poignant, and mold breaking—Gessner takes us deep into the environmental and personal tragedies of the spill.” —Jim Campbell, the author of The Final Frontiersman
“Plenty of people are writing about the BP oil disaster, but few indeed will be able to make us feel the reality of it like David Gessner can. The likelihood that his account will also be action-filled and darkly funny is pure bonus.” —John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Blood Horses
“In this highly readable, firsthand account of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, David Gessner considers the catastrophe in the Gulf as a symptom of even bigger economic and cultural challenges that loom in our future. This excellent book is not judgmental, but thought provoking and well worth reading.” —David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds
Descriere
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history: over the course of three months, nearly five million barrels of crude oil gushed into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and washed up along our coast. Yet it was an avoidable environmental catastrophe preceded by myriad others, from Three-Mile Island to the Exxon Valdez.
Traveling the shores of the Gulf from east to west with oceanographers, subsistence fisherman, seafood distributors, and other long-time Gulf residents, acclaimed author and environmental advocate David Gessner offers an affecting account of the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. With The Tarball Chronicles Gessner tells a story that extends beyond the archetypal oil-soaked pelican, beyond politics, beyond BP. Instead he explores the ecosystem of the Gulf as a complicated whole and focuses on the people whose lives and livelihoods have been jeopardized by the spill. He reintroduces this oil spill as a template for so many man-made disasters and the long-term consequences they pose for ecosystems and communities.
From the compelling people and places Gessner encounters on his journey we learn not only the extensive consequences of our actions but also how to break a destructive cycle. Throughout, The Tarball Chronicles suggests we can make a change in the way we live and prevent future disasters if we are willing to fundamentally rethink our connections to the natural world. "This is a book about connections," Gessner writes, "and never have we needed to make connections like we do right now."
Traveling the shores of the Gulf from east to west with oceanographers, subsistence fisherman, seafood distributors, and other long-time Gulf residents, acclaimed author and environmental advocate David Gessner offers an affecting account of the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. With The Tarball Chronicles Gessner tells a story that extends beyond the archetypal oil-soaked pelican, beyond politics, beyond BP. Instead he explores the ecosystem of the Gulf as a complicated whole and focuses on the people whose lives and livelihoods have been jeopardized by the spill. He reintroduces this oil spill as a template for so many man-made disasters and the long-term consequences they pose for ecosystems and communities.
From the compelling people and places Gessner encounters on his journey we learn not only the extensive consequences of our actions but also how to break a destructive cycle. Throughout, The Tarball Chronicles suggests we can make a change in the way we live and prevent future disasters if we are willing to fundamentally rethink our connections to the natural world. "This is a book about connections," Gessner writes, "and never have we needed to make connections like we do right now."