The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.44 (838 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1619025272 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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It’s a local story that asks questions with national implications: when commerce and the environment meet, what does it mean to protect something wild?"Anne Zimmerman, author of An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. "Every story is freighted with backstory, with multiple and intersecting histories. Brennan’s narrative skills are marked by a relaxed pace, diligent reporting and a scrupulous but fun dive into backstory with ample historical and scientific pigmentation.Brennan is a natural storyteller who makes a tough tale that many locals and visitors winced through and tiptoed around into a narrative celebration of the striking landscape of the Point Reyes Peninsula, and the spirit behind the oyster war itself."San Francisco Chronicle"In The Oyster War, Brennan writes with clarity and grace about an environmental conflict cen
Research was unacceptably poor though writing quality was enjoyable In the midst of reading this book, I was alerted by a friend to "scathing reviews" in the Huffington Post by Corey Goodman. I read those reviews and in 3 cases checked that the factual claims made by Dr. Goodman of substantive errors in Ms. Brennan's account were born out by the primary sources he referred to. In all 3 cases, I found Dr. Goodman to be correct and Ms. Brennan's account to be false or so incomplete as to be se. I Look Forward to Brennan's Next Book Joshua Summer Brennan is a good science writer and I look forward to her next book. She has an eye for detail and is a good storyteller. The first half of the book is really fun. Personally, once Brennan got to the minutiae of the politics of the oyster war - the full he said, she said - I was bored, and skipped over most of that part. The larger points, that "wilderness" is difficult to define and thus hard to legislate, and that . I loved the book an didn't read it to come up I loved the book an didn't read it to come up with with a solution to who was right and who was wrong and I'm not sure Ms Brennan establishes a strong case for either side. I enjoyed he story of the area, the land, the people involved and why they took the position they did. The author did a good job of reporting on the complicated issues involved in a very interesting way. I live in San Jose, almost 100 miles south of Point
A local rancher bought the business in 2005, renaming it The Drakes Bay Oyster Company. When the National Park Service informed him that the 40-year lease would not be renewed past 2012, he vowed to keep the farm in business even if it meant taking his fight all the way to the Supreme Court.Environmentalists, national politicians, scientists, and the Department of the Interior all joined a protracted battle for the estuary that had the power to influence the future of wilderness for decades to come. Inside was a small, family-run oyster farm firs