Desert Notebooks, Ben Ehrenreich
Desert Notebooks, Ben Ehrenreich
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Desert Notebooks
A Road Map for the End of Time

Author: Ben Ehrenreich

Narrator: David Bendena

Unabridged: 11 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2020

Synopsis

As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? National Magazine Award winner Ben Ehrenreich examines how the unprecedented pace of the destruction of our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. But in the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks and the apparent emptiness of the sky. He draws on that stark grandeur to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, Desert Notebooks offers a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—perfect for fans of Robert Macfarlane and Elizabeth Rush—that’s unflinching, urgent, and yet timeless and profound.

About David Bendena

David Bendena is an actor and a musician based in the Midwest. His theatre experience over the past twenty years has taken him to stages throughout Chicago, Kansas City, and Michigan. He is very proud to be a member of the Actors Equity Association and to be a Resident Artist with the Purple Rose Theatre Company.

About Ben Ehrenreich

Ben Ehrenreich writes about climate change for The Nation. His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, the London Review of Books, and Los Angeles magazine. In 2011, he was awarded a National Magazine Award. His book The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine, based on his reporting from the West Bank, was one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2016. He is also the author of two novels, Ether and The Suitors.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on May 08, 2020

I have had an ongoing love affair with the deserts of the American Southwest for nearly two decades now and I take my reading related to it both seriously and critically. With DESERT NOTEBOOKS, Ben Ehrenreich delivers a new contribution to the canon of essential reading about the place and the rest......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on July 19, 2020

DNF. Not at all what I hoped it would be. Hoped it would be ruminations on the grandeur or history or people of the desert, that might comfort and distract from 2020 news cycle and dreams of travel that can't happen. But this isn't that. It's more of a litany of world political and environmental pro......more

Goodreads review by Jolanta (knygupė) on February 04, 2021

3.5* Pavadinimas labai tikslus - užrašų knygutė. Taip ir jautėsi, kad skaitai užrašus apie aplinkosaugą, klimato kaitą, gamtą, pasaulio pabaigas, mitologiją, šių dienų politines ir gamtines aktualijas, kurios tikrai kartais spekuliatyviai pritemptos prie reikiamų temų. Tokia savotiška mišrainė. Tačia......more

Goodreads review by Richard on November 23, 2020

Almost fantastic, and on my list for a second read sometime down the road. Mr. Ehrenreich writes from and of two locales, Joshua Tree, and Las Vegas, with Las Vegas taking up the bulk of the book, but with Joshua Tree being the most cogent and interesting of the two. The leitmotif of the book is the......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on January 25, 2021

I probably wouldn’t have finished this book if it weren’t so beautifully written. Not that it is not interesting. But likely the last thing I needed during the waning days of the “Rhino” administration was to read about the end of the world as we know it, which, as a professional climate justice adv......more

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