Granta 83, Fall 2003: This Overheating World

Burtynsky, Edward; Ian Jack; Noah Richler; Bill McKibben; Maarten 't Hart; Jon McGregor; James Hamilton-Paterson; Mark Lynas; Wayne McLennan; Christopher de Bellaigue; Marian Botsford Fraser; Matthew Hart; Thomas Keneally; Philip Marsden

ISBN 10: 1929001134 / ISBN 13: 9781929001132

Published by Granta, London, 2003

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First edition. Near Fine paperback with a touch of bumping at the front fore edge and a touch of shelf wear. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The Fall 2003 issue of Granta, The Magazine of New Writing, #83, covering the issue of climate change, with: a large portfolio of color photographs by Edward Burtynsky, introduced by Noah Richler; an introductory essay by Bill McKibben; fiction by Maarten 't Hart and Jon McGregor; James Hamilton-Paterson on the 'unbridgeable conceptual gap between our unique species and the rest;' Mark Lynas with brief bulletins from the frontiers of climate change including Alaska, Australia, China, Tuvalu, the United States, and Peru; Wayne McLennan on rowing a boat to Alaska; essays by James Meek, Nuha al-Radi, Christopher de Bellaigue, Marian Botsford Fraser, Matthew Hart, Thomas Keneally, and Philip Marsden; and much more. Edited by Ian Jack. 256 pages; color plates and b&w photos sprinkled throughout; 5.5 x 8 inches.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Granta 83, Fall 2003: This Overheating World
• Publisher: Granta, London
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1929001134
• ISBN 13: 9781929001132
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
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Synopsis

The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived. This is not a wild-eyed prediction, a man on the street with a placard ("THE END IS NIGH"). Respectable science knows it and says it. Nine of the world's ten warmest years since records were kept have occurred in the past fourteen years. Some calculations suggest the average English garden moves south, climatically, by a distance of sixty-six feet every day. Who is responsible? We are ? our habits. Can we prevent it? Too late. Can we moderate it, slow it, eventually reverse it? Yes ? if we try. This outdoor issue of Granta reports from our present and future world, with writings from Edward Burtynsky, Marian Botsford Fraser, James Hamilton-Paterson, Thomas Keneally, Philip Marsden, and Bill McKibben. In addition, Christopher de Bellaigue, James Meek, and Nuha al-Radi offer insights in the new Iraq, along with a new story by Jon McGregor.