Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth
by Craig Childs
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Discusses the Earth's inherent instability and susceptibility toward violent natural disasters and climate extremes, challenging beliefs about apocalyptic inevitabilities while revealing how to change humanity's place within the planet's cycles.Tags
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First rate essays on the many ways the world might end, full of wit and imagination, and powered by the fact that he is right there in the places he's writing about,
Craig makes armchair adventure a lot of fun. Impressed that he manages to make a living writing and adventuring this way. Imaginative premise for a book. Next life, maybe.
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Craig Childs is a river guide, a field instructor in natural history, an adventurer, & a writer. His other books include "Crossing Paths: Uncommon Encounters with Animals in the Wild" (Sasquatch). He camps in the backcountry of the American West at least nine months of the year, usually living in the back of his truck, out of a river vessel, or show more from his backpack. He hasn't had a phone in ten years. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- People/Characters
- Craig Childs
- Important places
- Sonora, Mexico; Patagonia, Chile; St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, USA; Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Greenland; Grundy County, Iowa, USA (show all 9); Tibet; Big Island, Hawai'i, USA; Atacama Desert, Chile
- Important events
- climate change
- Epigraph
- The word "apocalypse" from the Greek apokálypsis, originally referred to the lifting of a veil or a revelation. The common definition as a destructive worldwide event is more recent. In this book, it is both.
- Dedication
- For Regan, the other side of the coin
- First words
- A dead cow lay on the side of the road, nothing left but hide and bone.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Dried bougainvillea spun around the plaza as we looked up, seeing perfectly good rain clouds flying by, silvery blue and racing past in the wind.
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