Green Options » environmental writing since thoreau http://greenoptions.com/tag/environmental-writing-since-thoreau Posts tagged 'environmental writing since thoreau' Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:15:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Book Review: American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/24/book-review-american-earth-environmental-writing-since-thoreau/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/24/book-review-american-earth-environmental-writing-since-thoreau/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:15:00 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/24/book-review-american-earth-environmental-writing-since-thoreau/ Whether you’re (still) trying to figure out what to get that hard to shop for greenie for Christmas or you’re looking for a good book to hunker down with over the holidays, a new volume edited by Bill McKibben and titled American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau is so packed with high-quality writing it is literally hard to put down.

McKibben, well known for his environmental writings, including The End of Nature (1989), the first book for a general audience about global warming, and more recently, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007), has compiled the foundational writings of American environmentalism and stuffed them into a 1,000 page epic tome that anyone with a green bone in their body would love to add to their bookshelf.

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