Journeys Beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World

By Leah Garrett

Book Overview

Gaylord Nelson is known and respected throughout the world as a founding father of the modern environmental movement and creator of one of the most successful and influential public awareness campaigns ever undertaken on behalf of global stewardship: Earth Day.
Now in his eighties, Nelson delivers a timely and urgent message with the same eloquence with which he has articulated the nation s environmental ills through the decades. He details the planet s most critical concerns from species and habitat losses to global climate changes and population growth. In outlining his strategy for planetary health, he inspires citizens to reassert the environment as a top priority.
A book for anyone who cares deeply about our environment and wants to know what we can and must do now to save it, Beyond Earth Day is a classic guide by one of the natural world s great defenders.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299184447
• ISBN13: 9780299184445
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"