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One of Kirkus Reviews'' 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022
A gold Nautilus Book Award winner, Ecology & Environment

From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis

How do we find a sense of home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter?

Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live. In At Home on an Unruly Planet, science journalist Madeline Ostrander reflects on this crisis not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting all of us at home. She offers vivid accounts of people fighting to protect places they love from increasingly dangerous circumstances. A firefighter wor

At Home on an Unruly Planet

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      Publisher: Holt McDougal
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/08/2023
      ISBN13: 9781250871411, 978-1250871411
      ISBN10: 1250871417
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      One of Kirkus Reviews'' 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022
      A gold Nautilus Book Award winner, Ecology & Environment

      From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis

      How do we find a sense of home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter?

      Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live. In At Home on an Unruly Planet, science journalist Madeline Ostrander reflects on this crisis not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting all of us at home. She offers vivid accounts of people fighting to protect places they love from increasingly dangerous circumstances. A firefighter wor

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