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Good Dirt
Morine, David E.; Flint, Paul
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Description for Good Dirt
Paperback. The best-selling conservation classic-completely expanded, revised, and updated-that reveals how the mission of saving land got off track and how it can be resurrected Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: RNF; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 16.
The best-selling conservation classic, completely expanded, revised, and updated David Morine was a briefcase conservationist specializing in human nature. During his fifteen years in charge of land acquisition for The Nature Conservancy, Morine helped protect more than three million acres of wilderness, finding plenty to laugh about and learn from along the way. Here are the stories behind the deals and the people who made them—an enlightening, entertaining, occasionally unsettling look at the dirty job of keeping America clean.
The best-selling conservation classic, completely expanded, revised, and updated David Morine was a briefcase conservationist specializing in human nature. During his fifteen years in charge of land acquisition for The Nature Conservancy, Morine helped protect more than three million acres of wilderness, finding plenty to laugh about and learn from along the way. Here are the stories behind the deals and the people who made them—an enlightening, entertaining, occasionally unsettling look at the dirty job of keeping America clean.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Guilford, United States
ISBN
9780762773640
SKU
V9780762773640
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99-15
About Morine, David E.; Flint, Paul
Dave Morine is a native of the greater Boston area. From 1972 to 1990, he was the head of land acquisition for The Nature Conservancy, a major conservation organization. Morine left the Conservancy in 1990 and has been writing ever since. GOOD DIRT: Confessions of a Conservationist (Globe Pequot ... Read more
Reviews for Good Dirt
"Morine shares his most difficult, embarrassing, hilarious and unpredictable moments as a shirt-and-tie deal maker in the service of an untamed natural world."
New York Times Book Review "This is funny stuff."
The Bloomsbury Review "Some of the funniest tales in the annals of conservation . . . Thoroughly enjoyable."
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New York Times Book Review "This is funny stuff."
The Bloomsbury Review "Some of the funniest tales in the annals of conservation . . . Thoroughly enjoyable."
Booklist