Richard Manning
"Writers in Place - An Evening with Richard Manning and Elizabeth Woody"
Thursday, November 09, 2000, 11:30 AM
Richard Manning is a prolific writer and winner of the Richard J. Margolis Award. His work pushes the boundaries of environmentalism, and shares stories of a new vision for the Pacific Northwest. Manning lives in Montana.
Books:
Against the Grain: How Agriculture has Hijacked Civilization (2004)
Manning offers a fascinating through-the-looking-glass view of people and agriculture, from the domestication of plants and animals ten thousand years ago to today's corporate megafarms.
Salmon Nation: People and Fish at the Edge (2003)
Salmon Nation takes general readers behind the headlines into the company of six knowledgeable guides to a deeper understanding of the most celebrated fish of western North America. Thoughtful essays by Native American writer Elizabeth Woody, fisheries biologist Jim Uchatowich, journalist Richard Manning, former commercial fisherman Freeman House, and writer Seth Zuckerman trace the relationship between people and salmon from the days of abundance that sustained Northwest Coast native cultures to the troubled world of salmon today.
Food's Frontier: the Next Green Revolution (2000)
"Richard Manning reports on this emerging Green Revolution, pioneering the fruit of agricultural projects under way in Ethiopia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, China, India, Mexico, Peru, and Chile. By placing their stories in social and political context and bringing in the voices of scientists, farmers, and ordinary citizens, Manning creates a mosaic portrait of where our next meals are coming from and presents some surprising and controversial solutions to our most pressing environmental problem." - Alibris.com
Inside Passage: a Journey Beyond Borders (2000)
"This book is about an idea that rests at the junction of what we call wilderness and civilization. Simply, it is a call for rethinking, and more importantly, reconstructing, our relationship with nature" from Inside Passage. Protecting land in parks safe from human encroachment has been a primary strategy of conservationists for the past century and a half. Yet drawing lines around an area and calling it wilderness does little to solve larger environmental problems. As author Richard Manning puts it in a knowingly provocative way: "Wilderness designation is not a victory, but acknowledgement of defeat" -Alibris.com
One Round River: the Curse of Gold and the Fight for the Big Blackfoot (1998)
"Richard Manning provides the history and a sense of the importance of the Big Blackfoot River in Montana, which is threatened with environmental destruction because of gold mining and logging interests. A New York Times "Notable Book for 1998." - Alibris.com
Grasslands: the History, Biology, Politics, and Promise of the American Prairie (1995)
"The past, present, and future story of the Western and Midwestern grasslands -40% of our country- and of our own place in this land. In addressing one of today's hottest environmental topics, award-winning journalist Manning shows how the grass is not only our last connection to the natural world but a vital link to our own prehistoric roots." - Alibris.com
A Good House: Building a Life on the Land (1993)
"'It is a measure of the confusion of our times that the simplest words tease out the most complicated questions. Words like good and house. What do we mean by these? A year of my life turned on this question, a year in which I built my own house.' These thoughts launch us into Richard Manning's powerful and compelling account of his building an environmentally conscious house on a thirty-eight acre piece of land in the wilds of western Montana. Concerned about our culture's disregard for the environment, and facing his own mid-life crisis, Richard Manning decided to rebuild what he could...." - Alibris.com
Last Stand: Logging Journalism, and the Case for Humility (1992)
"A riveting expose of environmental pillage and a lone journalist's struggle to keep faith. In 1988, Richard Manning, a reporter for the Montana Missoulian, blew the whistle on two out-of-state logging companies that had clear-cut a swath the size of Delaware through the forests of the Northern Rockies. Manning's articles won his paper an award, but cost him his job. This courageous book is his story as well as a report on the destruction of America's woodlands and its cover-up." - Alibris.com