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 Stories About: air pollution AND green living AND United States
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A Matter of Life and Breath
Joe Sherman's Gasp! explores the history of air and finds it's anything but empty |
Michael Levitin |
14 Dec 2004 |
Arts and Minds |
| Gasp! by Joe Sherman, Shoemaker & Hoard, 417 pgs., 2004. Oxygen may not strike you as a likely protagonist for a book. It's invisible, it's all around you, it's something you inhale 19,000 times a day and take utterly for granted. But Joe Sherman's Gasp! The Swift and Terrible Beauty of Air is a masterfully inventive biography of air, weaving together ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, green living, United States (all these topics) |
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