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For the first time, the best of McKibben's essays--fiery, magical, and infused with his uniquely soulful investigations of modern life--are collected in a single volume.

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Powerful, impassioned essays on living and being in the world, from the bestselling author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy

For 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 essays--fiery, magical, and infused with his uniquely soulful investigations of modern life--are 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 Earth--and of one another.

*The Plain Dealer (Cleveland )
**Michael Pollan

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  • Title The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life
  • Author Bill McKibben
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Griffin, New York
  • Publication date 2008-03-04
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780805076271 / 0805076271
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.2 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Environmental protection - Citizen
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007039609
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.72

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Citations

  • Booklist, 02/15/2008, Page 27
  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2007, Page 1282
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2008, Page 92
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/24/2007, Page 37

About the author

Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books, including The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, and Deep Economy. 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.

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