
Book
The View From Lazy Point
A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
Carl Safina
Picador · Print & ebook · January 3, 2012
Reading lane: Wilderness & Wild Places
Hailed MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on the shore of eastern Long Island and on his travels to the four points of the compass.
At a Glance
Why This Clicks
A Year in View
A naturalist’s year opens onto environmental questions, social justice, and the politics shaping our finite world.
Come here for
- Close attention to the natural world across a year
- Environmental questions linked to social justice and greed
Expect
- A contemplative tour between one shore and far-flung travels
- Difficult questions, with room for hope
Book Details
- Authors
- Carl Safina
- Publisher
- Picador
- Published
- January 3, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Wilderness & Wild Places · Coasts & Shorelines
- Reading lane
- Wilderness & Wild Places
Affinity
Publisher Categories
Conservation
Coasts & Shorelines
About This Book
Hailed MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on the shore of eastern Long Island and on his travels to the four points of the compass. As he witnesses a natural year in an unnatural world he shows how the problems of the environment are linked to questions of social justice and the politics of greed, and in asking difficult questions about our finite world, his answers provide hope.
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