Hope, Human and Wild
True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth
by Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben’s first book, the bestselling The End of Nature, offered
a devastating portrait of the harm human civilization has done to the
planet. Hope, Human and Wild sets out on a dramatically different
journey to provide examples and hope for a sustainable future, one in
which our society’s wealth is measured less by its material
productivity and more by its spiritual richness; less by its
consumption of resources and more by the extent to which we live in
harmony with the natural world.
From the Adirondack Mountains to Kerala, India, to
Curitiba, Brazil, McKibben offers clear-eyed and profoundly compelling
portraits of places where resourceful people have confronted modern
problems with inventive solutions, and thrived in the process. With an
afterword by the author updating developments in the decade since the
book was first published, this new edition offers a badly needed vision
of optimism for the future of our planet.
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Bill McKibben
Author's Bio:Bill McKibben is the author of ten books, including The End of Nature,
The Age of Missing Information, and Enough: Staying Human in an
Engineered Age. His newest book, Deep Economics, is due in March 2007. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes
regularly for Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Review
of Books, among other publications. He is a scholar in residence at
Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue
Halpern, and their daughter.
Quotes:“A useful and surprisingly optimistic book that proposes to leave
behind the increasingly sterile debate between wilderness and
civilization and in its place offer a vision of recovery, renewal, of
resurgence.”—Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“A book about healing the land as well as our souls. McKibben opens the
door to the twenty-first century with his belief in the coming era of
environmental restoration. I pray that he is right.”—Terry Tempest
Williams, author of Refuge
“Tantalizing, infuriating, and intelligent.”—Library Journal
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Price:
$ 15.00
Binding: Paperback
Availability In Stock: 142
Immediately
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2007
Size: 5.25 x 8
Genre: Nonfiction
Series: The World As Home
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781571313003
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