The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022

Name: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Author: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
ISBN: 9780063274563

Author: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Jaime Green

Series: Best American

Narrator: Tracey Leigh, Jennifer Aquino, Ulka Simone Mohanty, Isabella Star LaBlanc, Gisela Chipe, Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Unabridged: 12 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/01/2022

Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections, Nature, Science

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and series editor Jaime Green. Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, renowned marine biologist and co-founder of the All We Can Save climate initiative, compiles the best science and nature writing of the year. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and Brooklyn native. She co-edited the bestselling climate anthology All We Can Save and co-founded The All We Can Save Project. She publishes widely, including in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Scientific American. She is on the 2021 Time 100 Next List, was named one of Elle’s 27 Women Leading on Climate, and Outside magazine called her “the climate leader we need.”

About Jaime Green

Jaime Green, series editor, is a science writer and essayist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Aeon, Slate, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Astrobites, and elsewhere. She is the author of The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lizzie

** Thanks so much to NetGalley, Jaime Green, and Mariner Books for this ARC! The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022 will be out on November 1st, 2022 ** I enjoyed this one a lot! As with all anthologies, there were articles that I liked more or less. This anthology focused more on climate......more

Goodreads review by Jaime

More like 2.5. I really wanted to love this - I’ve loved these books for years, . But I wanted more diversity in topics and areas of interest with this one. That was one of the things I loved about past editions: I’d get oncology, chemistry, surgery, psychiatry, climate change, earth science - a wid......more

Goodreads review by Radwa

to sim it up in ver yfew words: enlightening, frightening, hopeful. A collection mainly written in 2021 and combiles in this book in 2022 and I'm reading it in 2023, so it's interesting to see what still resonates today, even to someone like me, who doesn't really read a lot of science or nature writ......more

Goodreads review by Jacob

The most memorable entry in this is a piece of investigative journalism from the Tampa Bay Times. It recounts how workers at a factory in Tampa were "exposed to extreme amounts of lead" for decades. The factory's doctor seemingly chose to ignore evidence of lead poisoning in the employees under his......more