Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore/by Elizabeth Rush /
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781571313812
- Book Title
- Rising : Dispatches from the New American Shore
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Nature, Architecture, Science
- Topic
- Decoration & Ornament, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Global Warming & Climate Change, Essays
- Item Weight
- 16.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 328 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
ISBN-10
1571313818
ISBN-13
9781571313812
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038442556
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rising : Dispatches from the New American Shore
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Decoration & Ornament, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Global Warming & Climate Change, Essays
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Architecture, Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-011459
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Praise for Elizabeth Rush's Rising "A rigorously reported story about American vulnerability to rising seas, particularly disenfranchised people with limited access to the tools of rebuilding." Jury Citation, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction "Deeply felt . . . Rush captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry; the book is further enriched with illuminating detail from the lives of those people inhabiting today's coasts. . . . Elegies like this one will play an important role as people continue to confront a transformed, perhaps unnatural world." New York Times "The book on climate change and sea levels that was missing. Rush travels from vanishing shorelines in New England to hurting fishing communities to retracting islands and, with empathy and elegance, conveys what it means to lose a world in slow motion. Picture the working-class empathy of Studs Terkel paired with the heartbreak of a poet." -- Chicago Tribune (Best Ten Books of 2018) "Sea level rise is not some distant problem in a distant place. As Rush shows, it's affecting real people right now. Rising is a compelling piece of reporting, by turns bleak and beautiful." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction "A smart, lyrical testament to change and uncertainty. Rush listens to both the vulnerability and resiliency of communities facing the shifting shorelines of extreme weather. These are the stories we need to hear in order to survive and live more consciously with a sharp-edged determination to face our future with empathy and resolve. Rising illustrates how climate change is a relentless truth and real people in real places know it by name, storm by flood by fire." --Terry Tempest Williams, author of The Hour of Land "Lovely and thoughtful . . . Reading [Rush's] book is like learning ecology at the feet of a poet." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "With tasteful and dynamic didactic language, [Rush] informs the layperson about the imminent threat of climate change while grounding the massive scope of the problem on heartfelt human and interspecies connection." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Moving and urgent . . . Rush's Rising is a revelation. . . . The project of Rising , like the project of Matthew Desmond's Pulitzer Prize-winning Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City , is to draw attention to ongoing material crisis through the stories of the people who are surviving within it. Rising is a clarion call. The idea isn't merely that climate change is here and scary. There's a more important message: There are people out here who need help." -- Pacific Standard "Timely and urgent, this report on how climate change is affecting American shorelines provides critical evidence of the devastating changes already faced by some coastal dwellers. Rush masterfully presents firsthand accounts of these changes, acknowledging her own privileged position in comparison to most of her interviewees and the heavy responsibility involved in relaying their experiences to an audience. . . . In the midst of a highly politicized debate on climate change and how to deal with its far-reaching effects, this book deserves to be read by all." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Rush traffics only sparingly in doomsday statistics. For Rush, the devastating impact of rising sea levels, especially on vulnerable communities, is more compellingly found in the details. From Louisiana to Staten Island to the Bay Area, Rush's lyrical, deeply reported essays challenge us to accept the uncertainty of our present climate and to consider more just ways of dealing with the immense challenges ahead." -- The Nation
Dewey Decimal
551.45/70973
Table Of Content
CONTENTS The Password Jacob's Point, Rhode Island RAMPIKES Persimmons Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana On Gratitude Laura Sewall: Small Point, Maine The Marsh at the End of the World Phippsburg, Maine Pulse South Florida On Reckoning Dan Kipnis: Miami Beach, Florida RHIZOMES On Storms Nicole Montalto: Oakwood Beach, Staten Island Divining Rod Oakwood Beach, Staten Island On Vulnerability Marilynn Wiggins: Pensacola, Florida Risk Pensacola, Florida On Opportunity Chris Brunet: Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana Goodbye Cloud Reflections in the Bay Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana RISING Connecting the Dots H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon On Restoration Richard Santos: Alviso, California Looking Backward and Forward in Time San Francisco Bay, California Afterword: Listening at the Water's Edge Acknowledgments Notes
Synopsis
' Sea level rise is not some distant problem in a distant place. As Elizabeth Rush shows, it's affecting real people right now. Rising is a compelling piece of reporting, by turns bleak and beautiful.' -- Elizabeth Kolbert FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018 A GUARDIAN , NPR's SCIENCE FRIDAY , PUBLISHERS WEEKLY , AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018 Hailed as 'deeply felt' ( New York Times ), 'a revelation' ( Pacific Standard ), and 'the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing' ( Chicago Tribune ), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love.With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising , Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place.Weaving firsthand testimonials from those facing this choice -- a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago -- with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communities, Rising privileges the voices of those too often kept at the margins., FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018 A GUARDIAN , NPR's SCIENCE FRIDAY , PUBLISHERS WEEKLY , AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018 Hailed as "deeply felt" ( New York Times ), "a revelation" ( Pacific Standard ), and "the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing" ( Chicago Tribune ), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising , Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand testimonials from those facing this choice--a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago--with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communities, Rising privileges the voices of those too often kept at the margins. In a new afterword for the paperback edition, Rush highlights questions of storytelling, adaptability, and how to powerfully shift conversation around ongoing climate change--including the storms of 2017 and 2018: Hurricanes Harvey, Maria, Irma, Florence, and Michael., FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD Hailed as "deeply felt" ( New York Times ), "a revelation" ( Pacific Standard ), and "the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing" ( Chicago Tribune ), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising , Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand testimonials from those facing this choice--a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago--with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communities, Rising privileges the voices of those too often kept at the margins. In a new afterword for the paperback edition, Rush highlights questions of storytelling, adaptability, and how to powerfully shift conversation around ongoing climate change--including the storms of 2017 and 2018: Hurricanes Harvey, Maria, Irma, Florence, and Michael., FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD Hailed as "deeply felt" (New York Times), "a revelation" (Pacific Standard), and "the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing" (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand testimonials from those facing this choice--a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago--with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communities, Rising privileges the voices of those too often kept at the margins. In a new afterword for the paperback edition, Rush highlights questions of storytelling, adaptability, and how to powerfully shift conversation around ongoing climate change--including the storms of 2017 and 2018: Hurricanes Harvey, Maria, Irma, Florence, and Michael.
LC Classification Number
GT420.H43 2018
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