The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life

Powerful, impassioned essays on living and being in the world, from the bestselling author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy

For a generation, Bill McKibben has been among America's most impassioned and beloved writers on our relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking book on climate change, The End of Nature, is considered as important as Rachel Carson's classic Silent Spring* and Deep Economy, his deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding** exploration of globalization, helped awaken and fuel a movement to restore local economies.

Now, for the first time, the best of McKibben's essays--fiery, magical, and infused with his uniquely soulful investigations of modern life--are collected in a single volume, The Bill McKibben Reader. Whether meditating on today's golden age in radio, the natural place of biting black flies in our lives, or the patriotism of a grandmother fighting to get corporate money out of politics, McKibben inspires us to become better caretakers of the Earth--and of one another.

*The Plain Dealer (Cleveland )
**Michael Pollan

Author: Bill McKibben
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 03/04/2008
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780805076271

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2007 pg. 1282
Publishers Weekly 12/24/2007 pg. 37
Library Journal 02/01/2008 pg. 92
Booklist 02/15/2008 pg. 27

About the Author

Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books, including The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, and Deep Economy. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes regularly for Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Review of Books, among other publications. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter.

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