Description:
Winner - National Outdoor Book Award (History/Biography)
Longlisted - PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell--the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation.
Brief description: John Taliaferro is a graduate of Harvard College, a former senior editor at Newsweek, and the author of five previous books, including All the Great Prizes, winner of the Douglas Dillon Award. He lives in Texas and Montana.
Review Quotes: In Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West, the first full-length biography of the man, John Taliaferro seeks to restore [Grinnell] to his rightful place among the giants of the early conservation movement in the United States. . . . Alas, our current environmental crises reach well beyond the problems that Grinnell and his clique aimed to solve. Even so, his life and work offer valuable lessons.--Andrew Graybill "Wall Street Journal"