The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Rating: ★★★★★ The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan. Penguin Press (2006), 450 pages. I was prepared to wade through a fair amount of dry technical talk on vegetable genetics and the like, in...
View ArticleThe End of the Line
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat, by Charles Clover. The New Press (2006), 384 pages. I tried so hard to like this book because the topic is...
View ArticleThe Golden Spruce
Rating: ★★★★★ The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed, by John Vaillant. W.W. Norton (2005), 255 pages. The Golden Spruce is the story of the total destruction of the coastal...
View ArticleFruitless Fall
Rating: ★★★★★ Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis, by Rowan Jacobsen. Bloomsbury (2008), 279 pages. Echoing Rachel Carson’s Silent Snow, Jacobsen’s...
View ArticleListening to Whales
Rating: ★★★★★ Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us, by Alexandra Morton. Ballantine Books (2002), 314 pages. Listening to Whales is part memoir and part nonfiction. It’s about whale and...
View ArticleThe Wave
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean, by Susan Casey. Doubleday (2010), 318 pages. Oh, Susan. I’m so embarrassed for you. Aren’t you embarrassed? Must all...
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