The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
THE VIEW FROM LAZY POINT named winner of the 2012 Orion Book Award! THE VIEW FROM LAZY POINT; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World (Picador, January 2012) has been named winner of the 2012 Orion Book Award. View the announcement here. orionmagazine.org/index.php/article/6197/ Hailed MacArthur...
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THE VIEW FROM LAZY POINT named winner of the 2012 Orion Book Award! THE VIEW FROM LAZY POINT; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World (Picador, January 2012) has been named winner of the 2012 Orion Book Award. View the announcement here. orionmagazine.org/index.php/article/6197/ Hailed MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on the shore of eastern Long Island and on his travels to the four points of the compass. As he witnesses a natural year in an unnatural world he shows how the problems of the environment are linked to questions of social justice and the politics of greed, and in asking difficult questions about our finite world, his answers provide hope.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781250002716 (1250002710)
Publish date: January 3rd 2012
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Writing,
Essays,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Biology,
Ecology,
Animals,
Green
Heart-wrenching, eye-opening and exquisitely written. Safina has been compared to many of the giants in the natural history world, but he's a better writer than the lot of 'em. In this latest book, he waxes a bit more philosophical than he's done before. His philosophy fits my belief system like a g...
The Book Report: Carl Safina is an August Personage. He's a Guggenheim Fellow. He's a MacArthur Fellow. He's won at least two awards for literary merit in writing about science. He founded Blue Ocean Institute. He's been on the teevee, too! PBS, even Nightline! Here he chronicles the full twelve mon...
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