Carte Tarball Chronicles David Gessner

Tarball Chronicles

A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill

Autor: David Gessner
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Winner of the 2013 ASLE Book Award Winner of the Reed Award for the Best Book on the Southern Enviro...

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Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2012
Pagini
320
EAN
9781571313379
ISBN
1571313370
Enbook ID
04818946
Greutate
396
Dimensiuni
139 x 215 x 23

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Winner of the 2013 ASLE Book Award Winner of the Reed Award for the Best Book on the Southern Environment 2011 Named a Top Book from the South 2011 by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A San Francisco Chronicle Gift Book Recommendation for 2011 A Southern Independent Booksellers Bestseller "For those interested in putting the Gulf crisis in perspective, there can be no better guide than this funny, often uncertain, frank, opinionated, always curious, informed and awestruck, accounting of how we've gone wrong and could go right, a full-strength antidote to the Kryptonite of corporate greed and human ignorance." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution Traveling the shores of the Gulf from east to west with oceanographers, subsistence fisherman, seafood distributors, and other long-time Gulf residents, acclaimed author and environmental advocate David Gessner offers a lively, arresting account of the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. With The Tarball Chronicles Gessner tells a story that extends beyond the archetypal oil-soaked pelican, beyond politics, beyond BP, and beyond other oil spill books in the market. Instead, heart on his sleeve and beer in hand, he explores the ecosystem of the Gulf as a complicated whole and focuses on the people whose lives and livelihoods have been jeopardized by the spill. With his

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