Coal
A Human History
Author: Barbara Freese
Narrator: Shelly Frasier
Unabridged: 7 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Published: 06/01/2003
Category: History - World
Author: Barbara Freese
Narrator: Shelly Frasier
Unabridged: 7 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Published: 06/01/2003
Category: History - World
Much of this book is an anti-coal environmentalist sermon. The history rarely rises above the level of a high school survey course text book. The author displays little knowledge of the technology, chemistry, mineralology, or economics of coal. Her research does not extend beyond England and the US. She infuses a lot of personal opinion and takes the obligatory cheap shots at Republican Presidents. This is a narrow, shallow, and disappointing book. It could have beens titled, Why I Hate Sulfur Dioxide. Who doesn't?