Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West - Couverture rigide

Ward, Chip

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1859847501 ISBN 13 : 9781859847503

Editeur : Verso Books, 1999

Synopsis

In the late 1970s Chip Ward and his wife left the Sleeping Rainbow Ranch in Capitol Reef National Park to raise their children in the classic small-town American setting of Grantsville, Utah. There, on the edge of the Great Basin Desert, disturbing tales of local sickness and death interrupted an idyllic life. A seven-year quest to understand a hidden history of ecocide followed. Canaries on the Rim is Ward's firsthand account of that quest and how lessons learned in the wilderness were later applied to building opposition to toxic waste disposal, chemical weapons incineration, industrial pollution, and nuclear waste storage. The secret holocaust that is unfolding along the toxic shadow of America's Great Basin Desert is grim, but Ward's colorful and often-humorous story is not. Canaries on the Rim is a warning and a call to arms, but it is also a compelling drama and a lively primer on environmental activism. If civil action took place in Edward Abbey's West, this is the book that would result.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Chip Ward manages Utah's public library Development Program.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1859847501
• ISBN 13: 9781859847503
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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