Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781640093539)

Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time.

Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. 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? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun.

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. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present--unflinching, urgent--yet timeless and profound.

Author: Ben Ehrenreich
ISBN-10: 1640093532
ISBN-13: 9781640093539
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Language: English
Published: 07/07/2020
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/02/2020
Library Journal 05/01/2020 pg. 137
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2020
Shelf Awareness 07/07/2020