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Vanishing earth dispatches from the frontiers of extraction

"Crawford belongs with other storyteller-explorers-strolling player-writers like Iain Sinclair, Rebecca Solnit, and Robert Macfarlane-who are stretching naturalist observation into incisive cultural inquiry ... Riveting." --NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS "Crawford is at his best when surrendering to his p...

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Main Author: Crawford, James (Writer on aerial photography) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2026.
Subjects:
Natural resources > Exploitation.
Mineral industries > Environmental aspects.
Environmental degradation.
Human ecology.
Climatic changes.
Environmental impact analysis.
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
Natural resources > Management.
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Summary:"Crawford belongs with other storyteller-explorers-strolling player-writers like Iain Sinclair, Rebecca Solnit, and Robert Macfarlane-who are stretching naturalist observation into incisive cultural inquiry ... Riveting." --NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS "Crawford is at his best when surrendering to his propensity for reverie, an irrepressible, almost romantic sense of wonder that drives the reader from chapter to chapter." --WASHINGTON POST From the acclaimed author of The Edge of the Plain, a journey to the ravaged frontiers of extractive industry and the promising, often radical alternatives emerging just as we reach the point of exhausting the earth's natural resources.
Physical Description:420 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Conatins bibliographic references (pages 339-401) and index (pages 405-420).
ISBN:9781639733224
1639733221
Author Notes:James Crawford is an acclaimed historian, publisher and broadcaster. His book Fallen Glory was selected as a Sunday Times Must Read, and a Book of the Year by the New Statesman and the Independent. His latest, The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World earned rave reviews in The New York Review of Books and The Washington Post , and was featured on CNN's Amanpour. He lives in Edinburgh.

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