{"product_id":"wandering-home-a-long-walk-across-americas-most-hopeful-landscape-9781627790208","title":"Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[McKibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class traveling companion.\"--\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWandering Home\u003c\/i\u003e, one of his most personal books, Bill McKibben invites readers to join him on a hike from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks. Here he reveals that the motivation for his impassioned environmental activism is not high-minded or abstract, but as tangible as the lakes and forests he explored in his twenties, the same woods where he lives with his family today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of his journey McKibben meets with old friends and kindred spirits, including activists, writers, organic farmers, a vintner, a beekeeper, and environmental studies students, all in touch with nature and committed to its preservation. For McKibben, there is no better place than these woods to work out a balance between the wild and the cultivated, the individual and the global community, and to discover the answers to the challenges facing our planet today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill McKibben\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than a dozen books, including \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOil and Honey\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEaarth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeep Economy\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the founder of the environmental organization 350.org and was among the first to warn of the dangers of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50474437443858,"sku":"9781627790208","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_07a5e113-05d7-4479-be88-fb50e658fcda.jpg?v=1730220638","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wandering-home-a-long-walk-across-americas-most-hopeful-landscape-9781627790208","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}