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Download Desert Notebooks ã PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free For fans of Robert Macfarlane or Elizabeth Rush National Magazine Award winner and The Nation columnist Ben Ehrenreich layers climate science mythologies nature writing and personal experiences into a stunning reckoning of our current moment and our all too human urge to grapple with apocalypseA book about the literal and figurative end of time and what that means for us as conscious beings Desert Notebooks looks at how both the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and our increasingly unstable global socio political i. I have had an ongoing love affair with the deserts of the American Southwest for nearly two decades now and I take my reading related to it both seriously and critically With DESERT NOTEBOOKS Ben Ehrenreich delivers a new contribution to the canon of essential reading about the place and the rest of the world as it relates to itEhrenreich isn t writing a desert book per se but he is writing from the Mojave and his love for it is deep As climate change flexes its dark might around him and Donald Trump named here as The Rhino wreaks his havoc Ehrenreich delves into histories of the first inhabitants the history of writing philosophy and owls Sounds like a mash up and it is but it works Sometimes journalists turned authors produce work that simply reads like a collection of reported pieces sewn together with a half baked attempt at a narrative thread Ehrenreich avoids that trap this man is a storyteller The mix of science myth anecdotes and a profound love for the terrain produces one of my favorite reads of the spring thus far if not the year Ghost Light year
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Download Desert Notebooks ã PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free The American desert the main locales for the book are Joshua Tree and Las Vegas as a springboard to examine how we formulate our concepts of time and what it means to confront the looming apocalypse Desert Notebooks is a moving confrontation with Deep Time and a meditation on landscape in the face of climate change Faced with an uncertain future Ehrenreich argues there is comfort in reflecting on the role we humans have played in our own demise in the past The difference is that this time the clock may finally be running out for go. First off DNF Secondly while his writing proves the author s erudition it wasn t exactly emotional which was odd since it really seemed as though he has deep feelings at least for the desert And thirdly I got tired of having the president called the RINO in the WH
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Download Desert Notebooks ã PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Nstitutions have led to an existential crisis orders of magnitude greater than any humankind has confronted before As inhabitants of the Anthropocene what might some of our own histories tell us about how to grapple with apocalypse And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act towards timeEmploying an elegant discursive style that interweaves memoir with science writing creation myths and history National Magazine Award winner and The Nation columnist Ben Ehrenreich uses the desolate landscape of. I got this book because I love everything about the desert Instead all I got was the chaotic and random ravings and ruminations about everything that s wrong with the world without any new insight or constructive thinking What a waste of time I could just as well have listened to my stoned neighbor venting and repeating what everyone already knows