Month: September 2014

At Yale

The Windham Campbell Literature Prize winners: John Vaillant

ohn Vaillant’s writing is equal parts adventure story, history lesson, investigative journalism, and eco-philosophy. Best known for his two nonfiction works, The Golden Spruce and The Tiger: A true story of vengeance and survival, Vaillant uses ecology, historiography, cultural anthropology, and geography to explore the tensions between economic necessity and natural resource sustainability in temperate rainforests of British Columbia and […]