Explores the fragility of nature and the massive erosion, rising sea levels, and other environmental threats that are destroying the largest wetland in the United States.

Part of the “Longman Topics” reader series, Listening to Earth explores nature and environmental conflict in the United States from personal and thematic perspectives. Focusing on today¿s environmental issues, this engaging collection contains a wide range of readings that cover a variety of topics, attitudes, and rhetorical styles. It presents essays, reportage, and fiction that probe the contradictions surrounding environmental issues in the United States today and presents arguments for using, conserving, preserving, and finding pleasure, beauty, and spirituality in land.

Product Description: An intimate look at the Cajun trappers and fishermen who live off the land in the Louisiana marshes. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explores the fragility of nature and the massive erosion, rising sea levels, and other environmental threats that are destroying the largest wetland in the United States, a region of the Mississippi River Delta that affects forty percent of the nation's wetlands, a third of the nation's fish harvest, massive oil and gas reserves, and New Orleans. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This unique anthology of readings engages students with current ecological issues and the history of the environmental movement. Chronologically organized from 1850 through 1993, it exposes students to the Green Perspectives in historical, political and social contexts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)