| Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape Contributor(s): McKibben, Bill (Author) |
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ISBN: 1627790209 ISBN-13: 9781627790208 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Travel | United States - Northeast - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) |
| Dewey: 917.475 |
| LCCN: 2014466613 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.44" W x 8.36" (0.34 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology - Cultural Region - New England - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Mountains - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Geographic Orientation - Vermont |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: McKibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class traveling companion.--Entertainment Weekly In Wandering Home, one of his most personal books, Bill McKibben invites readers to join him on a hike from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks. Here he reveals that the motivation for his impassioned environmental activism is not high-minded or abstract, but as tangible as the lakes and forests he explored in his twenties, the same woods where he lives with his family today. Over the course of his journey McKibben meets with old friends and kindred spirits, including activists, writers, organic farmers, a vintner, a beekeeper, and environmental studies students, all in touch with nature and committed to its preservation. For McKibben, there is no better place than these woods to work out a balance between the wild and the cultivated, the individual and the global community, and to discover the answers to the challenges facing our planet today. |
Contributor Bio(s): McKibben, Bill: - Bill McKibben is a founder of the environmental organization 350.org and was among the first warn of the dangers of global warming. He is the author of more than fifteen books, including the bestsellers The End of Nature, Eaarth, and Deep Economy. McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and the winner of the Gandhi Prize, the Thomas Merton Prize, and the Right Livelihood Prize. He lives in Vermont. |