Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Kolbert Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 1620409887 / ISBN 13: 9781620409886

Published by Hodder Headline Group, 2015

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pp. 288.

Seller Inventory # 131427620

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Field Notes from a Catastrophe
• Publisher: Hodder Headline Group
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620409887
• ISBN 13: 9781620409886
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe).

Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today.

But in the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding grows. Now, Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career. She has added a chapter bringing things up-to-date on the existing text, plus three new chapters--on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral--making it, again, a must-read for our moment.

About the Author

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.