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A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World: Tales of Fire, Wind, and Water
Critic Reviews
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--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestselling author David Gessner asks what kind of planet his daughter will inherit in this coast-to-coast guide to navigating climate crisis. The world is burning and the seas are rising. How do we navigate this new age of extremes? In A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World, David Gessner takes readers on an eye-opening tour of climate hotspots from the Gulf of Mexico to the burning American West to New York City to the fragile Outer Banks, where homes are being swallowed by the seas. He does so with his usual sense of humor, compassion, and a willingness to talk to anyone, providing an informative and sobering yet convivial guide for the age of fire, heat, wind, and water.Gessner approaches scientists and thinkers with a father's question: What will the world be like in 2064, when his daughter Hadley is his age now? What is the future of weather? The future of heat, storms, and fire?
Book Details
- Publisher: Torrey House Press
- Publish Date: Jun 20th, 2023
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.95in - 5.20in - 1.10in - 1.05lb
- EAN: 9781948814812
- Categories: • Natural Disasters• Global Warming & Climate Change• Essays
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About the Author
A professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, his magazine publications include pieces in the New York Times Magazine, Sierra, Audubon, Orion, and many other magazines, and his prizes include a Pushcart Prize and the John Burroughs Award for Best Nature Essay for his essay "Learning to Surf." He has received the Association for Study of Literature and the Environment's award for best book of creative writing, and the Reed Award for Best Book on the Southern Environment. In 2017 he hosted the National Geographic Explorer show, "The Call of the Wild." He is married to the novelist Nina de Gramont.
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What people are saying
Nina de Gramont is an author.
Book Riot gets it! David Gessner’s A Traveler’s Guide to the end of the World one of 9 Best New Nonfiction Releases to Read in June 2023- https://t.co/0Qu1ksLIw4
Our mission: to help you think about new ways to live on Earth justly, sustainably, and joyously. Nonprofit. Independent. Ad-free. Let's do this.
David Gessner (@DavidGessner) asked scientists to answer a simple writing prompt: what will the air look like when today's teenagers are 60? A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. https://t.co/5BzfdbkuqR
Host of the What Matters Most Podcast & the author of the bestselling book, Hitchhiking With Larry David + 5 other books.
A beautiful exchange filled w heart and soul w the great writer David Gessner on his latest book: A Travelers Guide to the End of the World. He is also the author of Leave It As It Is. #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming https://t.co/APTp2b6I1u
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
--FOREWORD REVIEWS
"Excellent environmental journalism."
--KIRKUS REVIEWS
"A meditative and elegiac look at a country on the brink."
--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"A veteran writer on the environment, Gessner evokes the havoc resulting from human-caused climate change by taking us to a host of melting, blazing, flooded or desiccated places...evocative prose and
knowledgeable commentary."
--THE WASHINGTON POST
"A highly readable, thought-provoking book."
--BOOK RIOT
"A Traveler's Guide is a highway road sign bedazzled with flashing-red lights that command us to halt--and to open our ears to what the earth is saying."
--WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS
"With his signature humor, Gessner manages to show us the worst while helping us hope for the best."
--ANNE HOLMAN, The King's English Bookshop
"Gessner plunges headfirst into the reality of climate change in this visionary and crystalline portrait of how our world, our landscapes, and, perhaps most importantly, our hearts, are forever altered."
--AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL, author of World of Wonders
"Gessner bears powerful witness to the places he loves best, tracing the connections among their crises and finding possibility in their uncertain futures."
--MICHELLE NIJHUIS, author of Beloved Beasts
"Important reading...I became a magpie peering over Gessner's literary shoulder."
--J. DREW LANHAM, author of The Home Place
"This profound love letter to an uncertain future will forever change the way you imagine resilience, resistance, and transformation in the face of a rapidly changing planet."
--MICHAEL P. BRANCH, author ofOn the Trail of the Jackalope
"Others write book reports on global warming, spewing statistics. Gessner immerses himself, getting to know the people most affected while telling their stories, writing from inside the crisis."
--MARK SPITZER, author of Monster Fishing
"Urgent but not panicked, this book is as personal and vulnerable as the world Gessner is describing."
--BRAD COSTA, Boulder Book Store
"David Gessner is a necessary traveler along the border between the present and the future. Let him be your guide with this splendid book."
--CONGRESSMAN JAMIE RASKIN
"With elements of dark humor that come flying like swallows going home, Gessner's journey becomes one of hoping to remember what's gone, writing a field guide to the life still present."
--LINDA HOGAN, author of A History of Kindness
What people are saying
Nina de Gramont is an author.
Book Riot gets it! David Gessner’s A Traveler’s Guide to the end of the World one of 9 Best New Nonfiction Releases to Read in June 2023- https://t.co/0Qu1ksLIw4
Our mission: to help you think about new ways to live on Earth justly, sustainably, and joyously. Nonprofit. Independent. Ad-free. Let's do this.
David Gessner (@DavidGessner) asked scientists to answer a simple writing prompt: what will the air look like when today's teenagers are 60? A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. https://t.co/5BzfdbkuqR
