Thu, Jun 15
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Sara Dant, Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West (new edition)
Sara Dant, an award-winning historian, will be in conversation with Sarah Noss, Executive Director, Santa Fe Conservation Trust. "This is a brilliant book. Environmental history at its absolute finest.” Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, prof. of history, Rice University
Date, Time & Location
Jun 15, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This is an in-store event and will live-streamed to Zoom, register here to watch on Zoom.
Pre-order a copy of the new edition of Losing Eden from CW online here or by calling the store (505) 988-4226 - signed copies will be availale after the event.
Historical narratives often concentrate on wars and politics while omitting the central role and influence of the physical stage on which history is carried out. In Losing Eden award-winning historian Sara Dant debunks the myth of the American West as “Eden” and instead embraces a more realistic and complex understanding of a region that has been inhabited and altered by people for tens of thousands of years.
This revised and updated edition incorporates the latest science and thinking. It also features a new chapter on climate change in the American West, a larger reflection on the region’s multicultural history, updated current events, expanded and…