| Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia Contributor(s): Reece, Erik (Author) |
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ISBN: 1594482365 ISBN-13: 9781594482366 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2007 Annotation: This groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction exposes how radical strip mining is destroying one of America's most precious natural resources and the communities--particularly in Appalachia--that depend upon it. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Mountains - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Technology & Engineering | Mining |
| Dewey: 622.292 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.34" W x 8.24" (0.57 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology - Cultural Region - Appalachians |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain and offers a landmark defense of a national treasure threatened with extinction. |