Fat of the Land
Subtitle: The Garbage Of New York--The Last Two Hundred Years
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
Published: October 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9781568581729
Subjects: Waste management; Social aspects; Military & War; History; Politics / Current Events; Refuse and refuse disposal; Sociology; New York; Government - State & Provincial; Life Sciences - Ecology; Life Sciences - Ecology - Recycling; Health aspects; New York (State); Current Affairs
First sentence: James Reyburn, a fifty-five-year-old wall Street lawyer and cotton broker who was widely admired for his good works and infectious good humor, had a premonition that he would die of cholera.
Description: "Examines the history of refuse disposal in New York and includes a chronology of waste management and related disease control in the Western World from 1830-2000."