Product Description: Taking as its narrative engine the hunt for an animal that is legendarily rare, Richard Girling writes an engaging and highly informative history of humankind’s interest in hunting and collecting – what prompts us to do this? what good might come of our need to catalog all the living things of the natural world?Girling, named Environmental Journalist of the Years 2008 and 2009, has here chronicled – through the hunt for the Somali golden mole – the development of the conservation movement, the importance of diversity in the animal kingdom, including humankind within this realm, as well as a hard look at extinction...read more

Product Description: A timely polemic on greed: how it drove our ancesters out of their caves but is now sending us careening towards our destruction.Selfishness and greed have been our tools of survival from the very beginning, ever since our earliest forebearers climbed down from the trees and set off across the savannah in search of God...read more

Product Description: In a very readable combination of unpalatable facts and compelling prose, Girling presents a controversial view of Britons’ changing relationship with the sea and coastline, addressing such issues as pollution and destruction of marine environment...read more

Product Description: This is the story of our garbage—from the first human bowel movement to the littering of outer space. With a handkerchief to his nose, Richard Girling picks through our fridge mountain, our crumbling sewers, trading waste, packaging waste, hazardous—and terrifying—industrial waste, spam e-mails, and other new forms of waste...read more

Product Description: Rubbish! is an examination of the problem of waste—domestic and industrial—in the UK and elsewhere. Challenging and controversial, this is a rigorous examination of the problem of waste worldwide and the efficacy of the public and private initiatives designed to forestall a crisis fast ballooning into catastrophe...read more

Product Description: Book by

Fifty travelers describe their experiences in El Salvador, China, Burma, Lapland, California, the Himalayas, Spain, India, Russia, Mongolia, Bolivia, Greece, Turkey, and Czechoslovakia