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SUMMARY:CCMNH: A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World
DESCRIPTION:The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents\n\nA Traveler's Guide to the End of the World\n\nTales of Fire\, Wind and Water\n\nwith\n\n  Author David Gessner\n\n \n\nBREWSTER\, MA   The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster presents  A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World: Tales of Fire\, Wind and Water with author and environmentalist\, David Gessner Thursday\, August 17\, 2023 at 1:00pm.\n\n \n\nIn his latest book\, A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World\, veteran nature writer David Gessner uses powerful examples of environmental devastation to show a myriad of ways in which climate change is altering areas across the United States. Drawing on research\, it describes a version of the United States in which the air itself is difficult to breathe\, in which populated coastal areas have been abandoned to the tides\, and wildfires have become ever more commonplace. Gessner describes a country wherein the rich and poor alike will pay the costs of the country's inaction\, and he uses current examples to set a troubling baseline upon which dangerous feedback loops build.\n\nDrawing on personal experiences and conversations with affected communities\, A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World issues moving warnings about future dangers while bearing witness to the precarious present.\n\n \n\nDavid Gessner is a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and the author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature\, humor\, memoir\, and environmentalism\, including The Return of the Osprey\, The Prophet of Dry Hill\, Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness\, and Quiet Desperation\, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis.\n\n \n\n*Book signing to follow the program/Books available in the Museum Shop\n\nTickets: $10 per person Tickets available online at www.ccmnh.org \n\nDOES NOT INCLUDE MUSEUM ADMISSION\n\nFor more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<strong><span style="font-family:franklin gothic medium\,sans-serif\;">The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents</span></strong><br />\n<strong><em><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;">A Traveler&rsquo\;s Guide to the End of the World</span></em></strong><br />\n<strong><em><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">Tales of Fire\, Wind and Water</span></span></em></strong><br />\n<strong><span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">with</span></span></span></strong><br />\n<strong><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;">&nbsp\; Author David Gessner</span></strong><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<strong><span style="color:#262626\;"><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;">BREWSTER\, MA &mdash\; </span></span></strong><span style="color:#262626\;"><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;">The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster presents &nbsp\;</span></span><em><span style="background:white\;"><span style="color:#333333\;"><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;">A Traveler&rsquo\;s Guide to the End of the World: Tales of Fire\, Wind and Water</span></span></span></em><span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;"> with author and environmentalist\, David Gessner<strong> Thursday\, August 17\, 2023 at 1:00pm</strong>.</span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;">In his latest book<em>\, A Traveler&rsquo\;s Guide to the End of the World\, </em>veteran nature writer David Gessner uses powerful examples of environmental devastation to show a myriad of ways in which climate change is altering areas across the United States. Drawing on research\, it describes a version of the United States in which the air itself is difficult to breathe\, in which populated coastal areas have been abandoned to the tides\, and wildfires have become ever more commonplace. Gessner describes a country wherein the rich and poor alike will pay the costs of the country&rsquo\;s inaction\, and he uses current examples to set a troubling baseline upon which dangerous feedback loops build.</span></span><br />\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt\;">Drawing on personal experiences and conversations with affected communities\,&nbsp\;<em><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;">A Traveler&rsquo\;s Guide to the End of the World</span></em>&nbsp\;issues moving warnings about future dangers while bearing witness to the precarious present.</span></span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;">David Gessner is a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and the author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature\, humor\, memoir\, and environmentalism\, including <em>The&nbsp\;Return of the Osprey</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>The Prophet of Dry Hill\,</em>&nbsp\;<em>Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt&rsquo\;s American Wilderness</em>\, and<em> Quiet Desperation\, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis.</em></span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;">*Book signing to follow the program/Books available in the Museum Shop</span><br />\n<strong><span style="color:#262626\;"><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;">Tickets: $10 per person Tickets available online at </span></span></strong><a href="http://www.ccmnh.org"><strong><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;">www.ccmnh.org</span></strong></a>&nbsp\;<br />\n<strong><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">DOES NOT INCLUDE MUSEUM ADMISSION</span></span></strong><br />\n<span style="color:#262626\;"><span style="font-family:franklin gothic book\,sans-serif\;">For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.</span></span>
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