New Eco Books: "The War in the Country"

Thomas Pawlick's new book, The War in the Country: How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape our Future, is a rip-snorting pageturner filled with intrigue, violence, deception, and greed. (And you thought environmental non-fiction was dry and boring.)

In it Pawlick recounts, with evident dismay, the deterioration of rural life, the difficulties facing small land owners, the dangers of industrial agriculture and the apparent unfairness of heavy-handed government bureaucracy.