num_pages: 1047
description: 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 imaginationthe essays of Henry David Thoreau John Muir and John Burroughs; Aldo Leopolds A Sand County Almanac; Rachel Carsons Silent Springare 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 Americas 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.
language: English
title: American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
publisher: Library of America