Description
Product ID: | 9780141996905 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Green Ideas |
Title: | Uncanny and Improbable Events |
Authors: | Author: Amitav Ghosh |
Page Count: | 128 |
Subjects: | Environmentalist thought and ideology, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Conservation of the environment, Climate change, Conservation of the environment, Climate change, India |
Description: | Select Guide Rating In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the scale of environmental destruction, Amitav Ghosh summons writers and novelists to confront the most urgent story of our times. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world. In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-08-26 |