In twenty short books,Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the scale of environmental destruction,Amitav Ghosh summons writers and novelists to confront the most urgent story of our times.Over the past 75 years,a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans,visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet,and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades,becoming the classics of a movement. Together,these books show the richness of environmental thought,and point the way to a fairer,saner,greener world.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141996905Number of pages: 128Weight: 80 gDimensions: 181 x 111 x 7 mm
Amitav Ghosh
A celebrated contemporary writer and thinker Amitav Ghosh is the author of bestselling works including The Glass Palace and The Hungry Tide as well as the loosely connected trilogy of novels Sea of Poppies (which was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction),River of Smoke and Flood of Fire.
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