In twenty short books Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In this
personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the
scale of environmental destruction Amitav Ghosh summons writers and novelists to confront the
most urgent story of our times. Over the past 75 years a new canon has emerged. As life on
Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans visionary thinkers around the world have raised
their voices to defend the planet and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their
words have endured through the decades becoming the classics of a movement. Together these
books show the richness of environmental thought and point the way to a fairer saner greener
world.
