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The award-winning author of The Experience of Place delivers an "upbeat and engaging account of the remarkable progress being made to preserve vast wild spaces for animals to roam" (The Wall Street Journal)--and an urgent call to protect 50 percent of the earth's land by 2050--thereby saving millions of its species.

Beginning in the vast North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and roving across the continent, from the Northern Sierra to Alabama's Paint Rock Forest, from the Appalachian Trail to a ranch in Mexico, Tony Hiss sets out on a journey to take stock of the "superorganism" that is the earth: its land, its elements, its plants and animals, its greatest threats--and what we can do to keep it, and ourselves, alive.

Hiss not only invites us to understand the scope and gravity of the problems we face, but also makes the case for why protecting half the land is the way to fix those problems. He highlights the important work of the many groups already involved in this fight, such as the Indigenous Leadership Initiative, the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, and the global animal tracking project ICARUS. And he introduces us to the engineers, geologists, biologists, botanists, oceanographers, ecologists, and other "Half Earthers" like Hiss himself who are allied in their dedication to the unifying, essential cause of saving our own planet from ourselves.

Tender, impassioned, curious, and above all else inspiring, Rescuing the Planet is a work that promises to make all of us better citizens of the earth.

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  • Title Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth
  • Author Tony Hiss; Introduction by E. O. Wilson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780525563945 / 0525563946
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.87 x 5.2 x 0.87 in (19.99 x 13.21 x 2.21 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Nature conservation, Conservation of natural resources
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2020026103
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.751

About the author

TONY HISS is the author of fifteen books, including the award-winning The Experience of Place. He was a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than thirty years, was a visiting scholar at New York University for twenty-five years, and has lectured around the world. He lives in New York with his wife, young-adult writer Lois Metzger.
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