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Place of the Wild

A Wildlands Anthology

Place of the Wild( )
Editor: Burks, David Clarke
Contribution by: Abram, David
McKibben, Bill
Miller, Monique
Lachapelle, Dolores
Tempest Williams, Terry
Vest, Jay
Turner, Jack
Dening, Alison
Nabhan, Gary Paul
Foreman, Dave
Faulstitch, Paul
Manes, Chris
Grumbine, R. Edward
Devall, Bill
Snyder, Gary
Matteson, Mollie
Friedman, Mitch
Lord, Nancy
Haines, John
Drengson, Alan
Johns, David
Wuerthner, George
Davis, John
Oelschlaeger, Max
Mills, Stephanie
Morrison, James
Burks, Phyllis
Sale, Kirkpatrick
Young, Margaret Hayes
ISBN:978-1-55963-341-3
Publication Date:Oct 1994
Publisher:Island Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $69.99
Book Description:

Book Details
Pages:340
Detailed Subjects: Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness
Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Nature / Ecology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 cm
Book Weight:0.001 Kilograms
Author Biography
(Editor)
Bill McKibben grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. He was president of the Harvard Crimson newspaper in college. Immediately after college he joined the New Yorker magazine as a staff writer, and wrote much of the "Talk of the Town" column from 1982 to early 1987. After quitting this job, he soon moved to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 by Random House after being serialized in the New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. Several editions have come out in the United States, including an updated version published in 2006.

His next book, The Age of Missing Information, was published in 1992. It is an account of an experiment: McKibben collected everything that came across the 100 channels of cable tv on the Fairfax, Virginia system (at the time among the nation's largest) for a single day. He spent a year watching the 2,400 hours of videotape, and then compared it to a day spent on the mountaintop near his home. This book has been widely used in colleges and high schools, and was reissued in 2006. McKibben's latest book is entitled, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.

Bill currently resides with his wife, writer Sue Halpern, and his daughter, Sophie in Ripton, Vermont. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. 030 030



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