New recommended reading: “Disappearing Destinations”

This week, Eco-Libris presents a book about some of the most beautiful and endangered places on planet earth and how we can and should tour them responsibly: Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them, by Heather Hansen and Kimberly Lisagor.

This week, Eco-Libris presents a book about some of the most beautiful and endangered places on planet earth and how we can and should tour them responsibly: Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them, by Heather Hansen and Kimberly Lisagor. You can purchase it directly through Amazon via the “Recommended Reading” box on the bottom-right of this page.

“The entries are not all somber; destinations are introduced with descriptions of their natural charms. And the authors do spotlight cruise lines and resort operators who are trying to get it right. But the book’s principal mission is to show what we stand to lose, how quickly we stand to lose it, and how we might avoid that. ” - Jerry Haines, Washington Post

“‘Destination’ takes a journalistic approach, befitting its authors’ backgrounds in newspaper and magazine writing.” - Diane Daniel, Boston Globe

A beautiful and memorable look at some of the most gorgeous endangered places on the planet, locales that are changing as we speak due to global warming, environmental degradation, overuse, and natural causes. From the Boreal Forests in Finland to the Yangtze River Valley in China, 37 Places to See Before They Disappear is a treasure trove of geographic wonder, and a guide to these threatened destinations and what is being done to save them.

About the Authors
Heather Hansen has worked on staff at Boston magazine, the Sunday Independent (Johannesburg, South Africa) and the Provincetown Banner, where she wrote extensively on people and the environment. She won the Harper’s magazine award for Distinguished Magazine Writing in 1999, and has contributed to two books by Gail Sheehy: Middletown, America and Hillary’s Choice. Heather has political science and English degrees from Mount Holyoke College and a masters in journalism from UC Berkeley. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Kimberly Lisagor is a freelance journalist who has written about travel and the environment for Outside, Mother Jones, Men’s Journal, NationalGeographic Adventure, USA Weekend, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and others. She is the author of Outside’s Wilderness Lodge Vacations(W.W. Norton & Co., 2004), which won the Lowell Thomas Award for best guidebook and an Award of Excellence from the North American Travel Journalists Association. She lives in San Luis Obispo, California.

About Eco-Libris
Eco-Libris is a green business that works with book readers, publishers, writers, bookstores, and others in the book industry to balance out the paper used for books by planting trees. About 20 million trees are cut down annually for virgin paper to be used for the production of books sold in the U.S. alone. Eco-Libris raises awareness to the environmental impacts of using paper for the production of books and provides book lovers with a simple way to do something about it: plant a tree for every book they read. Visit Eco-Libris online.