A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer—updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe).
Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic
Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in
The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today.
But in the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding grows. Now, Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career. She has added a chapter bringing things up-to-date on the existing text, plus three new chapters--on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral--making it, again, a must-read for our moment.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Author’s Note
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I - Nature
- 1 Shishmaref, Alaska
- 2 A Warmer Sky
- 3 Under the Glacier
- 4 The Butterfly and the Toad
- Part II - Man
- 5 The Curse of Akkad
- 6 Floating Houses
- 7 Business as Usual
- 8 The Day After Kyoto
- 9 Burlington, Vermont
- 10 Man in the Anthropocene
- Part III - Time
- 11 Ten Years On
- 12 The Darkening Sea
- 13 Unconventional Crude
- 14 The Island in the Wind
- Further Reading
- Chronology
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Bibliography and Notes
- A Note on the Author
- Copyright Page
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