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ISBN10: 1594489084, ISBN13: 9781594489082, [publisher: Riverhead Books] Hardcover
[Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]

ISBN10: 1594489084, ISBN13: 9781594489082, [publisher: Riverhead Books] Hardcover
[Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]

Riverhead Books, Date: 2006-02-02. Hardcover. Good. 1.0000 in x 8.0000 in x 6.2008 in. 2006. Riverhead Books ISBN 1594489084 9781594489082 [US]

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Riverhead Books, Date: 2006. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2006. Riverhead Books ISBN 1594489084 9781594489082 [US]

New York: Riverhead Books. Hardcover. Date: 2006. 1st Edition. 8vo 250pp . Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. B&W Photographs. Neat ink name on front pastedown. Small black remainder mark on bottom edges . 2006. Riverhead Books ISBN 1594489084 9781594489082 [US]

New york: Riverhead Books, Date: 2006. First edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 249, ""The mountains of Appalachia are home to one of the great forests of the world - scientists refer to it as the 'rain forest' of North America because it predates the Ice Age and continues to host a remarkable density of diverse species. These mountains also hold the mother lode of American coal.… 2006. Riverhead Books ISBN 1594489084 9781594489082 [CA]

ISBN10: 1594489084, ISBN13: 9781594489082, [publisher: Riverhead Books] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A tan to the pages. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers
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ISBN10: 1594489084, ISBN13: 9781594489082, [publisher: Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.] Hardcover First Edition A nice, tight and clean copy. Minor edgewear. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. Reece's up-close assessment of a rapacious coal industry is a searing indictment of how a country's energy lust is ravaging the hills and hollows of Appalachia. The first-time author chronicles how, in one year, from October 2003 to September 2004, strip miners sheared away the top of Kentucky's aptly named Lost Mountain. This process of "mountaintop removal" left a barren wasteland that, months earlier, had supported songbirds, fox, deer and other wildlife, and a rich cover of trees. Reece's elegiac book¿much more than just an eyewitness report on ecological decimation¿also offers a concise history of how the coal industry long exploited workers; hints at harrowing tales of industry intimidation of antimining activists; details how toxic mining runoff has poisoned well water and how landslides have washed away homes and entire hamlets; and in a cautiously optimistic coda, reports how activists have reclaimed a few thousand acres of stripped land with reforestation projects. The Kentucky-born author, who canoed clean Appalachian rivers as a youth, has written an impassioned account of a business rife with industrial greed, devious corporate ownership and unenforced environmental laws. It's also a heartrending account of the ...

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