2024年佳选美国科学与自然写作 The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 336 pages

Publisher:Collins Publishers Inc

Imprint:Collins

ISBN:9780063333994

Published:5 Dec 2024

Weight:454g

Dimensions:210 x 140 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

屡获殊荣的环保主义者、作家和记者比尔·麦吉本 (Bill McKibben) 选择了 20 篇科学和自然散文，这些散文代表了上一年发表的此类散文的范例。

“这是人类历史上 (迄今为止) 不寻常的一年，”客座编辑比尔·麦吉本 (Bill McKibben) 写道，“在这一年，人与地球的关系出现了迄今为止戏剧性的瓦解迹象。”《2024 年美国科学和自然写作》中的选文揭示了我们星球的艰难一年——从拉海纳野火悲剧到茂密的亚马逊丛林慢慢变成大草原——同时也赞美了地球美丽而神秘的方式——从地球上超大的海狸水坝到防止鸟类撞上芝加哥玻璃建筑的英勇创新。这些散文在艰难时期提供了慰藉，指明了通往更美好未来的道路。正如麦吉本所说，它们“提醒我们，这个世界仍然是一个可爱而深刻的地方，值得为之奋斗。”

Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year.

“This was the most anomalous year (so far) in human history,” guest editor Bill McKibben writes, “the year in which the relationship between people and planet showed its most dramatic signs yet of unraveling.” The selections in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024 reveal a trying year for our planet—from the Lahaina wildfire tragedy to the lush jungle slowly turning to savanna—while also celebrating the earth’s beautiful and mysterious ways—from the largest beaver dam on earth to the heroic innovation to prevent birds from crashing into Chicago’s expanse of glass buildings. These essays offer solace in trying times, showing a way for a better future. They are, as McKibben says, “a reminder that this world is still a lovely and deep place, well worth the fighting for.”

作者简介

比尔·麦吉本是十几本书的作者，包括畅销书《动摇》、《深度经济》和《自然的终结》，后者是一本警告公众注意气候危机的书。他还是米德尔伯里学院环境研究舒曼杰出学者，曾获得甘地奖、托马斯·默顿奖和正确生活方式奖，后者有时被称为“另类诺贝尔奖”。

系列编辑杰米·格林是一位科学作家和散文家。她的作品曾出现在《大西洋月刊》、《Slate》、《国家》、《纽约时报书评》、《Astrobites》等杂志上。她是史密斯学院和约翰霍普金斯大学科学写作硕士课程的讲师，著有《生命的可能性：科学、想象力和我们在宇宙中寻找亲属关系》。

Bill McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including the bestsellers Falter, Deep Economy, and The End of Nature, which was the first book to warn the general public about the climate crisis. He is also the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and the winner of the Gandhi Prize, the Thomas Merton Prize, and the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called “the alternate Nobel.”

Jaime Green, series editor, is a science writer and essayist. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Astrobites, and elsewhere. She is a lecturer at Smith College and the Johns Hopkins master’s program in Science Writing, the author of The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos.