| Edition |
First paperback edition. |
| Description |
301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-301). |
| 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 : Staten Island, New York ; Divining rod : Staten Island, New York ; 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. |
| Summary |
"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"--Publisher's description |
| Subject |
Rush, Elizabeth A. -- Travel -- United States.
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Coast changes -- Climatic factors -- United States.
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Coast changes. |
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United States. |
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Coasts -- Climatic factors -- United States.
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Coasts. |
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Sea level -- Climatic factors -- United States.
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Sea level. |
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Travel. |
| Genre/Form |
Travel writing.
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| Added Title |
Dispatches from the new American shore |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Rush, Elizabeth A. Rising. First edition. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2018 9781571319708 (DLC) 2018016302 |
| ISBN |
9781571313812 (paperback) |
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1571313818 (paperback) |
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