LISTENING TO THE LAND
By Derrick Jensen
Chelsea Green Publishing Company (2004, world English rights)
Paper • ISBN-13: 9781931498562 • US $20 • 8.9 in x 5.9 in • 336 pgs.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Listening to the Land is a collection of conversations with environmentalists, theologians, philosophers, Native Americans, psychologists, and feminists, centering around the question: If the destruction of the natural world isn’t making us happy, why we are doing it? Derrick Jensen engages some of our best minds in an exploration of more peaceful ways to live on the earth.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Derrick Jensen is an activist, teacher, and prize-winning author of numerous books, including The Culture of Make Believe, A Language Older Than Words, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution, Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos, and co-author (with George Draffan) of Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests and Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control. His writing has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Audubon, The Sun Magazine, and Orion Magazine, among many others. Recently named Press Action Person of the Year, his speaking engagements pack bookstores, university auditoriums, and conference halls across the nation. He lives in Northern California and continues to write about the destructive impact of industrial civilization, our connection to the land, our kinship with one another, and our place in the living world. His website is http://www.derrickjensen.org/.
OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR:
Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests
Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos
Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution
Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control
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