Bruce Barcott: 4 books
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw
One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
“The first time we came here I didn’t know what to expect,” she told me as we paddled upstream. “What we found just blew me away. Jaguars, pumas, river otters, howler monkeys. The place was like a Noah’s Ark for all the endangered species driven out of the rest of Central America. There...
Measure of a Mountain
Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In The Measure of a Mountain, Seattle writer Bruce Barcott sets out to know Rainier. His method is exploratory, meandering, personal. He begins by encircling it, first by car then on foot. He finds that the mountain is a complex of moss-bearded hemlocks and old-growth firs, high meadows that blossom...
TIME Marijuana Goes Mainstreet
A Booming Business - Your Brain on Pot - Legalization Marches On
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Welcome to the end of the war on pot. With more landmark legislation in 2016, marijuana has continued its march toward legalization and normalization, 29 states having gone medically legal. In this updated adaptation, based on Bruce Barcott's groundbreaking book Weed the People, we look at some of...
Weed the People
The Future of Legal Marijuana in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The legalization of marijuana is the next great reversal of history. Perhaps the most demonized substance in America, scientifically known as Cannabis sativa, simply a very fast growing herb, thrived underground as the nation's most popular illegal drug.
Now the tide has shifted: In 1996 California...