The Heart of the Monster Why the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies Must Not Become an ExxonMobil Conduit to the Alberta Tar Sands |
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| Author:
| Duncan, David James
Bass, Rick |
| Photographer:
| Ohringer, Frederic |
| ISBN: | 978-0-615-42593-1 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2010 |
| Publisher: | All Against the Haul
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.00 |
Book Description:
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THE HEART OF THE MONSTER consists of a 130-page essay by David James Duncan and a 130-page novella by Rick Bass. Duncan’s essay, entitled “The Heart of the Monster,” is a protest of the plan by oil corporations and politicians to turn the Northwest’s and Northern Rockies’ rivers, roads and wilderness into a tentacle of the largest and most destructive petroleum project in history: the Alberta Tar Sands. Bass’s novella, “A Short History of...
More DescriptionTHE HEART OF THE MONSTER consists of a 130-page essay by David James Duncan and a 130-page novella by Rick Bass. Duncan’s essay, entitled “The Heart of the Monster,” is a protest of the plan by oil corporations and politicians to turn the Northwest’s and Northern Rockies’ rivers, roads and wilderness into a tentacle of the largest and most destructive petroleum project in history: the Alberta Tar Sands. Bass’s novella, “A Short History of Montana, is a portrait of the backward evolution of a fictitious political figure as Big Oil and Big Energy’s concepts of power begin to stew in his head and eat away his heart.