Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining andthe Devastation ofAppalachia
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781594482366 (1594482365)
Publish date: February 6th 2007
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
History,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Politics,
Social Science,
Social Issues
A revealing look at the horrors of mountain top removal mining.
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