David Gessner
1) The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and Into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill
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This bestselling account of an environmental disaster's aftermath offers "a firsthand look at the Gulf after the news cycle ended . . . brilliant." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Winner of an ASLE Book Award and a Reed Award
Named a Top Book from the South by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Traveling the shores of the Gulf from east to west with oceanographers, subsistence fishermen, seafood distributors, and other longtime Gulf residents,...
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Though environmental awareness is on the rise, our march toward ecological collapse continues. What was once a movement based primarily on land preservation, endangered species, and policy reform is now a fractured mess of back-to-the-landers, capitalist "green lifestyle" vendors, technology worshipers, and countless special interest groups.
Inspired by a rough-and-tumble journey across country and down river, David Gessner, a John Burroughs Award...
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When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner turned to Henry David Thoreau, the original social distancer, for lessons on how to live. Those lessons-of learning our own backyard, re—wilding, loving nature, self—reliance, and civil disobedience-hold a secret that could help save us as we face the greater crisis of climate.
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An urgent call to protect America's public lands, told through New York Times bestselling author David Gessner's American road trip with our greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, as his guide.
"Leave it as it is," Theodore Roosevelt announced while viewing the Grand Canyon for the first time. "The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it." Roosevelt's rallying cry signaled the beginning of an environmental fight that still wages...
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An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.
Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to
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