Crap at the Environment - Brossura

Watson, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0340952806 ISBN 13: 9780340952801

Casa editrice: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2008

Riassunto

What the environmental movement has been waiting for is a plane-frequenting, blissfully ignorant comedian with no green credibility whatsoever to tackle one of the most important issues of our time. When non-expert Mark Watson announced his intention to spend the year becoming less Crap At The Environment, within 24 hours, 500 mates and fans had joined him. He lived for (almost) a week without plastic. He ransacked libraries in order to read frightening books on climate change. He lured audiences outside to plant trees, confronted his morbid fear of bike-riding, even started eating vegetables. And a man who began 2007 as a blight on the planet ended up coming to the attention of the most famous almost-president in the world, Al Gore ...

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Recensione

'Expect to hear plenty more about him' (Observer)

' A quirky, irreverent take on the green lifestyle . . . an accessible antidote to the flood of more worthy environmental titles already available . . . in comical, self-depreciating style' (Bookseller)

'Packed with brilliant observations and sharp one-liners' (The Times on A Light-hearted Look at Murder)

'[One of] the new green heroes.' (Sunday Times on CRAP AT THE ENVIRONMENT)

'unpretentious, informative and very, very funny. Buy it for all your friends, or buy one and share. Imagine all the trees you'll save!' (Herald Sun, Australia)

'Intelligent, humane and desperately funny' (Independent on Sunday)

'Mark Watson comes across like a green St Paul to Al Gore's Jesus Christ' (BBC Focus Magazine )

'Eloquence and wit . . . an absolute gem' (Metro)

'Despite his irrational fear of cycling and uselessness at crafts; he can write an accessible environmental book which is both informative and laugh out loud funny, or, if you prefer, "funformative"' (The List)

'Woody Allen and William Boyd have had a bastard love-child and his name is Mark Watson' (Stephen Fry)

Descrizione del libro

Green (ish), keen (definitely) Perrier-winning Mark Watson is halving his carbon footprint and, in Danny Wallace Join Me-style, hes taking you with him.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0340952806
• ISBN 13: 9780340952801
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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