Elizabeth Kolbert: 5 books
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe).
Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking,...
The Sixth Extinction
An Unnatural History
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes
Over the last half a billion years, there have...
A sexta extinção
Uma história não natural
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Ao longo dos últimos quinhentos milhões de anos, o mundo passou por cinco brutais extinções em massa, nas quais sua biodiversidade caiu de maneira abrupta. Dessas, a mais conhecida foi a que eliminou, entre outros seres vivos, os dinossauros, quando um asteroide colidiu com o planeta há 65 milhões...
La sexta extinción
Una historia nada natural
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Kolbert explora cómo la actividad humana, el consumo de combustibles fósiles, la acidificación de los océanos, la contaminación, la deforestación y las migraciones forzadas amenazan contra formas de vida de todo tipo. «Se estima que un tercio de todos los corales que forman arrecifes, un tercio...
The Ends of the Earth
An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves have been an object of obsession
for as long as we've known they existed. Countless explorers, including
such legends as Richard Byrd, Ernest Shackleton, and Robert Falcon
Scott, have risked their lives to chart their frozen landscapes. Now,
for the first time...