Rising
Milkweed Editions (Verlag)
978-1-57131-381-2 (ISBN)
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD
Hailed as “deeply felt” (New York Times), “a revelation” (Pacific Standard), and “the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing” (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love.
With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant—and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place.
Weaving firsthand testimonials from those facing this choice—a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago—with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communities, Rising privileges the voices of those too often kept at the margins.
In a new afterword for the paperback edition, Rush highlights questions of storytelling, adaptability, and how to powerfully shift conversation around ongoing climate change—including the storms of 2017 and 2018: Hurricanes Harvey, Maria, Irma, Florence, and Michael.
Elizabeth Rush’s journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Harper’s, Pacific Standard, and the New Republic, among others. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants including the Howard Foundation Fellowship, awarded by Brown University; the Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Pedagogical Innovation in the Humanities; the Metcalf Institute Fellowship; and the Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Southern New Hampshire University and her BA from Reed College. She lives in Rhode Island, where she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University.
CONTENTS
The Password
Jacob’s Point, Rhode Island
RAMPIKES
Persimmons
Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana
On Gratitude
Laura Sewall: Small Point, Maine
The Marsh at the End of the World
Phippsburg, Maine
Pulse
South Florida
On Reckoning
Dan Kipnis: Miami Beach, Florida
RHIZOMES
On Storms
Nicole Montalto: Oakwood Beach, Staten Island
Divining Rod
Oakwood Beach, Staten Island
On Vulnerability
Marilynn Wiggins: Pensacola, Florida
Risk
Pensacola, Florida
On Opportunity
Chris Brunet: Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana
Goodbye Cloud Reflections in the Bay
Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana
RISING
Connecting the Dots
H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon
On Restoration
Richard Santos: Alviso, California
Looking Backward and Forward in Time
San Francisco Bay, California
Afterword: Listening at the Water’s Edge
Acknowledgments
Notes
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.10.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Eleven black-and-white photos by the author |
| Verlagsort | Minneapolis |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 139 x 215 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-57131-381-8 / 1571313818 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-57131-381-2 / 9781571313812 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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