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A Village to Reinvent the World, 2nd Edition
$66.64
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
3 September 2008
Summary
Los Llanos—the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia—are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile llanos could be made livable for his country’s growing population. He had no idea that nearly four decades later, his experiment would be one of the world’s most celeb…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781603580564 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1603580565 |
| Author: | Alan Weisman |
| Publisher: | Chelsea Green Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Chelsea Green Publishing Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 10th |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 153mm x 26mm |
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”…a book telling a tale too lovely for fiction, a lyrical, well-observed book that reports from the llanos of eastern Colombia, savannas tortured by guns and cows and cocaine, of an experiment in solar democracy in which ‘appropriate technology’ is anything but a sad product on the discount tables of broken, post-sixties idealism.”–Tom Athanasiou, The Nation (This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title)
About The Author
Alan Weisman
Alan Weisman is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best seller The World Without Us. He is an award-winning journalist whose reports have appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Discover, and Orion, among others, and on National Public Radio.
A former contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine, he is a senior radio producer for Homelands Productions and teaches international journalism at the University of Arizona. He lives in western Massachusetts.
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