
Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run
A Call to Save the Earth
David Brower(Author)
Steve Chapple(Editor)
Sierra Club Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 20. June 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
215 pages
978-1-57805-138-0 (ISBN)
Description
As executive director of the Sierra Club through the 1950s and '60s, Brower spearheaded its landmark campaigns, launched its publishing program, and, in Jerry Mander's words, "essentially vaulted the ecology movement into a major international force." Above all, as Amory Lovins observes, Brower was the movement's charismatic pied piper, inspiring countless young people--Lovins included--"to give up safe, conventional. unrewarding career tracks. to save the world." This small but incendiary and vastly entertaining volume, now back in print after a few years' absence, is vintage Brower, recounting events from his life and times as preludes to his siren songs on behalf of the Earth. His voice is, as always, erudite but never pedantic, beautifully cadenced, infuriatingly opinionated, and spiced with dry humor. And his insights are uncannily prescient, with projects he called for in the early 1990s now coming to pass: the adoption of hybrid cars, urban core infilling, wildlife corridors, and more. We also get telling glimpses of Brower's other sides: as a leading mountaineer and officer in the famed 10th Mountain Division during World War II and as an innovative and discerning editor. It is wholly typical of the man that his tale begins at a Grateful Dead concert, where he is composing a speech in his head, puzzling out how to move the young audience to as much passion for conservation as they express for their music. With this delightful book available once again, still more young (and not-so-young) people can be moved by Brower's words.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
255 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57805-138-0 (9781578051380)
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