A traveler's guide to the end of the world : tales of fire, wind, and water / by David Gessner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gessner, David, 1961- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental management.

Environmental degradation.

Climatic changes.

United States--Description and travel.

United States.

Physical Description:

359 pages : 21 cm

Edition:

First Torrey House Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, Utah : Torrey House Press, 2023.

Summary:

"The world is burning and the seas are rising. How do we navigate this new age of extremes? In A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World, David Gessner takes readers on an eye-opening tour of climate hotspots from the Gulf of Mexico to the burning American West to New York City to the fragile Outer Banks, where homes are being swallowed by the seas. He does so with his usual sense of humor, compassion, and a willingness to talk to anyone, providing an informative and sobering yet convivial guide for the age of fire, heat, wind, and water. Gessner approaches scientists and thinkers with a father's question: What will the world be like in 2064, when his daughter Hadley is his age now? What is the future of weather? The future of heat, storms, and fire?"--Amazon.

Contents:

Part I. Where the arrows point. Your tour guide

Future air

Nature writing by the numbers

Fire and water

Losing everything

Part II. Empty houses. Abandoned homes

Safe places

The road to paradise

Cocktails with vultures

Part III. Hurricane season. Travels with Orrin

The birds of British petroleum

After the storm

The apocalyptic city

Part IV. A new world. Reality show

Oceans away

Beneath the ice

The green below

A field guide to everything

One last trip.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1948814811

9781948814812

OCLC:

1345220073

Publisher Number:

99994764338