Against the Grain
How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
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Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100865477132
- ISBN-139780865477131
- LibraryThing120099
- OCLC Control Number57627317
- Better World Books9780865477131
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL8317337M
Classifications
- LCCS419 .M26 2005
Description
"The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, and Richard Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and nature's. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, along with his own travels, he argues that not only our ecological ills - overpopulation, erosion, pollution - but our social and emotional malaise are rooted in the devil's bargain we made in our not-so-distant past. And he offers personal, achievable ways we might re-contour the path we have taken to resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and the planet's."--Jacket.
First Sentence
It is high summer at my mountainside home in Montana, when days are long at this latitude.
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