The View from Lazy Point

A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Carl Safina

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Hailed MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on the shore of eastern Long Island and on his travels to the four points of the compass. As he witnesses a natural year in an unnatural world he shows how the problems of the environment are linked to questions of social justice and the politics of greed, and in asking difficult questions about our finite world, his answers provide hope.

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A deeply personal book with a broadly global message, The View From Lazy Point is an exhilarating journey with a distinctly coastal flavor. In this intertwined story of humanity and the natural world, Safina shows that nature and human dignity require each other.

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"You could call Safina a Thoreau for the twenty-first century." —New York Post

"Safina’s book soars….I had to—and wanted to—read The View from Lazy Point very slowly, allowing myself to digest its wealth of information, to revel in the beauty of Safina’s writing, and to absorb fully the implications of his musings….What a pleasure it is to find such an enlightening, provocative companion for walking and talking—and reading. We can ask no more from those who warn about dark days ahead than that they also awaken us to the miracle of everyday life." —Dominique Browning, The New York Times Book Review

"A call to arms in the cause of hope…Mr. Safina’s writing moves easily from revelatory observation sparked by a flash of bird or splash of fish to passionate, lyrical philosophy." —The Economist

"Before Carl Safina, environmentalists could often be heard wondering where the next Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, or Henry Beston might be hiding….The pure sensuous detail, seeing the natural world from a variety of angles, was missing in the generations after Carson and Leopold." —Newsday

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Carl Safina

Carl Safina, author of Song for the Blue Ocean, and founder of the Blue Ocean Institute, was named by the Audubon Society one of the leading conservationists of the twentieth century. He's been profiled by The New York Times, and PBS's Bill Moyers. His books and articles have won him a Pew Fellowship, Guggenheim Award, Lannan Literary Award, John Burroughs Medal, and a MacArthur Prize. He lives in Amagansett, New York.

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The View from Lazy Point
A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
Carl Safina

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Picador
January 2012
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ISBN: 9781250002716
ISBN10: 1250002710
5 1/2 x 8.25 inches, 416 pages, Includes 8 maps and 35 black-and-white illustrations throughout
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Henry Holt and Co.
A John Macrae Book
January 2011
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ISBN: 9780805090406
ISBN10: 0805090401
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January 2011
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