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OverviewIn the mid-1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent thoughts on the subject of the land and how humans interact with it. In a new afterword, he links the Dust Bowl to current political, economic, and ecological issues--including the American livestock industry's exploitation of the Great Plains, and the ongoing problem of desertification, which has now become a global phenomenon. He reflects on the state of the plains today and the threat of a new dustbowl. He outlines some solutions that have been proposed, such as the Buffalo Commons, where deer, antelope, bison, and elk would once more roam freely, and suggests that we may yet witness a Great Plains where native flora and fauna flourish while applied ecologists show farmers how to raise food on land modeled after the natural prairies that once existed. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Donald Worster , Sean RunnettePublisher: Tantor Audio Imprint: Tantor Audio ISBN: 9781665269889ISBN 10: 166526988 Publication Date: 14 June 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAn exciting, provocative, and stimulating study. . . . It has much to say to historians, environmentalists, and public policy makers.-- American Historical Review "An exciting, provocative, and stimulating study. . . . It has much to say to historians, environmentalists, and public policy makers.-- ""American Historical Review""" Author InformationDonald Worster is Honorary Director of the Center for Ecological History at the University of Remnin of China and Hall Distinguished Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Kansas and. He is the author of many books, including A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell, The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination, and Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West. Sean Runnette is a television and movie actor and Earphones Award-winning narrator who has also directed and produced more than two hundred audiobooks, including several Audie Award winners. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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