| Elizabeth
Kolbert traveled from Alaska to Greenland, and visited top scientists,
to get to the heart of the debate over global warming. Growing
out of a groundbreaking three-part series in The New Yorker
(which won the 2005 National Magazine Award in the category
Public Interest), Field
Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
brings the environment into the consciousness of the American
people and asks what, if anything, can be done, and how we can
save our planet. She explains the science and the studies, draws
frightening parallels to lost ancient civilizations, unpacks
the politics, and presents the personal tales of those who are
being affected most—the people who make their homes near
the poles and, in an eerie foreshadowing, are watching their
worlds disappear. Field
Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year (2006)
by The New York Times Book Review.
Elizabeth Kolbert
has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999.
She has written dozens of pieces for the magazine, including
profiles of Senator Hillary Clinton, Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
and former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Her series on global warming,
“The Climate of Man,” appeared in The New Yorker
in the spring of 2005, and has won the American Association
for the Advancement of Science’s magazine award, as well
as the 2006 National Academy of Sciences Communication Award
in the newspaper/magazine category. She has also been awarded
a Lannan Writing Fellowship (2006). Her stories have also appeared
in The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Mother
Jones, and have been anthologized in “The Best American
Science and Nature Writing” and “The Best American
Political Writing.” A collection of her work, The
Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit, was
published in 2004. Prior to joining the staff of The New
Yorker, Kolbert was a political reporter for The New
York Times. She is a graduate of Yale University. Elizabeth
Kolbert lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts with her husband
and three sons.
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“The brilliance
of Field Notes flows from Kolbert's gift for making the
violence of climate change feel vast yet intimate...”
Slate.com
“This
country needs more writers like Elizabeth Kolbert.”
Jonathan
Franzen
“f
you have time this year for just one book on science, nature,
or the environment, Field Notes should be it.”
San Diego Union Tribune
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