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Film, Video Bill McKibben Speaks on "American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau"

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Title

  • Bill McKibben Speaks on "American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau"

Summary

  • Each advance in environmental practice in our nation's history "was preceded by a great book," says writer, activist and editor Bill McKibben in his introduction to "American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau," an anthology of American environmental writing. McKibben discussed the book, which he edited, in a program sponsored by the Library's Center for the Book. "American Earth" is an unprecedented, provocative and timely anthology that brings together much of the best that has been thought and said about the interconnectedness of the natural world, our place in it and our responsibility to it. The forward is by Al Gore. In the volume, readers will find touchstones of the environmental imagination-the essays of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and John Burroughs; Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac"; and Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." They are set alongside the inspiring story of an emerging activist movement, as revealed by newly uncovered narratives of pioneering campaigns for wilderness conservations, passages from landmark legal opinions and legislation, and searing protest speeches.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Center for the Book, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2008-04-29.

Headings

  • -  Architecture, Landscape
  • -  Environment, Conservation
  • -  Literature
  • -  Government, World Affairs

Notes

  • -  Classification: Agriculture.
  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Bill McKibben.
  • -  Recorded on 2008-04-29.
  • -  Kids, Families.

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  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021687953

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book. Bill McKibben Speaks on "American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau". Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-29, 2008. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687953/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Center For The Book, S. B. (2008) Bill McKibben Speaks on "American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau". Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-29. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687953/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book. Bill McKibben Speaks on "American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau". Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-29, 2008. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021687953/>.