Category: Environment/Nature/Ag

June 20, 2010

The Lost City of Z by David Grann ** (of 4)

Percy Fawcett, one of the last of the iconic British explorers, ca. 1920, khaki get-up, pith helmet, and scraggly beard spends most of a lifetime...

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June 18, 2010

The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan **** (of 4)

Probably not much you do not already know about America’s industrial food chain and the manufactured food we consume at the end of it. You...

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June 18, 2010

No Man’s River, by Farley Mowat **** (of 4)

Fifty years after the events that brought him from the horrors of WW II to a small hut on the edge of Hudson’s Bay near...

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June 18, 2010

he Ninemile Wolves by Rick Bass ** (of 4)

OK, he really cares about wolves and he can write about nature like nobody’s business, but this book is like late McPhee cycling between great...

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June 18, 2010

Krakatoa by Simon Winchester * (of 4)

An OK book. Probably better on tape than to read. That’s what Sue says. It was excessively dense, like wading through chest deep water. I...

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June 18, 2010

Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir by D.J. Waldie **** (of 4)

A quirky recounting of the birth of one of America’s first post-war suburbs: Long Beach. Written by a city councilman who has lived his entire...

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June 17, 2010

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

I finally read it. The first story about Johnny Appleseed is astounding. The second story about tulips is interesting. Marijuana: enough already. I know four...

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April 29, 2010

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh *** (of 4)

An American-born ecologist of Indian immigrants travels to the Sunderbans to study the Irriwaddy Dolphin. She joins three additional main characters — a translator, an...

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