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Second nature : scenes from a world remade
- Title
- Second nature : scenes from a world remade / Nathaniel Rich.
- Author
- Rich, Nathaniel, 1980-
- Publication
- New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
- ©2021
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-875 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 288 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "From the author of Losing Earth, a deeply reported and beautifully told exploration of how we live in a post-natural world"--
- We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of air on Earth has escaped humanity's signature. The old distinctions--between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact--have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation. In Second Nature, ordinary people make desperate efforts to preserve their humanity in a world that seems increasingly alien. Their stories--obsessive, intimate, and deeply reported--point the way to a new kind of environmental literature, in which dramatic narrative helps us to understand our place in a reality that resembles nothing human beings have known.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Introduction: Strange victory -- Crime scene. Dark waters ; The wasting ; Here come the warm jets -- Season of disbelief. Frankenstein in the lower ninth ; Chickens without their heads cut off ; Aspen saves the world -- As gods. Pigeon apocalypse. Bayou bonjour: Oil and water is the fabric of your town; Barataria; The forest machine ; The immortal jellyfish ; Green rabbit.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-875
- ISBN
- 9780374106034
- 0374106037
- LCCN
- 2020049011
- 40030507681
- OCLC
- 1224043269
- Author
- Rich, Nathaniel, 1980- author.
- Title
- Second nature : scenes from a world remade / Nathaniel Rich.
- Publisher
- New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030507681
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-875