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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation Ofappalachia

by Erik Reece

ISBN13: 9781594482366
ISBN10: 1594482365
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A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain and offers a landmark defense of a national treasure threatened with extinction.

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This groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction exposes how radical strip mining is destroying one of America's most precious natural resources and the communities that depend upon it.

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Erik Reece is a writer in residence at the University of Kentucky. His work appears in The New York Times, Harper's, The Nation, Orion, and The Oxford American, among other publications.

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: merick0, April 1, 2007 (view all comments by merick0)
if want to know how economic injustice in eastern
kentucky contributes to global warming. it will become a classic in universities across the country
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ISBN:: 9781594482366
Subtitle:: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation Ofappalachia
Author:: Reece, Erik
Photographer:: Cox, John J.
Foreword:: Berry, Wendell
Publisher:: Riverhead Books
Subject:: Mountains
Subject:: Mining
Subject:: Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
Subject:: Environmental Conservation & Protection
Subject:: Appalachian Region
Subject:: Environmental aspects
Subject:: Strip mining -- Environmental aspects.
Publication Date:: February 2007
Binding:: Paperback
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Y
Pages:: 262
Dimensions:: 8.24x6.34x.63 in. .57 lbs.

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