Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
Richard Manning is a newspaper editor and investigative journalist based in Montana and southern Idaho whose articles have been widely published in leading publications around the world. He is the author of seven important books on environmental issues, including: Against the Grain: How Agriculture Hijacked Civilization; Food's Frontier; Inside Passage; One Round River: The Curse of Gold and the Fight for the Big Blackfoot; Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie; and Last Stand: Logging, Journalism and the Case for Humility. He has won numerous prestigious awards for investigative journalism and science and environmental writing. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness. 7-7:45 pm - World Port will perform on the wind syntheiszer and guitar.