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9781859843215
"With its muckracking mission, [this book] calls to mind such groundbreaking environmental exposes as SILENT SPRINT, REFUGE and OUR STOLEN FUTURE, but what distinguishes Ward's book is its tale of citizen involvement....Ward has a talent for analogy and extended metaphor. He'll take a small, detailed story and extrapolate it to represent a larger, more complex history....His book succeeds in its ambitious undertaking, demonstrating that nature is not as regenerative or transformative as we historically perceived it to be."Ward, Chip is the author of 'Canaries on the Rim Living Downwind in the West' with ISBN 9781859843215 and ISBN 1859843212.
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