num_pages: 442
description: Powerful impassioned essays on living and being in the world from the bestselling author of The End of Nature and Deep EconomyFor a generation Bill McKibben has been among America's most impassioned and beloved writers on our relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking book on climate change The End of Nature  is considered as important as Rachel Carson's classic Silent Spring * and Deep Economy his deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding** exploration of globalization helped awaken and fuel a movement to restore local economies.Now for the first time the best of McKibben's essaysfiery magical and infused with his uniquely soulful investigations of modern lifeare collected in a single volume The Bill McKibben Reader. Whether meditating on today's golden age in radio the natural place of biting black flies in our lives or the patriotism of a grandmother fighting to get corporate money out of politics McKibben inspires us to become better caretakers of the Earthand of one another.* The Plain Dealer (Cleveland )**Michael Pollan
language: English
title: The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin