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Carol Ann Bassett
Carol Ann Bassett
Nov. 30, 2009
7 pm
Pima Auditorium, Memorial Union, Tempe campus.
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited
For more information, contact: Margaret.coulombe@asu.edu, 480-727-8934
Carol Ann Bassett is the author of three works of literary nonfiction: Galápagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin’s Cradle of Evolution; A Gathering of Stones: Journeys to the Edges of a Changing World (a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction), and Organ Pipe: Life on the Edge (part of the Desert Places series). Her essays have been published in the American Nature Writing series and other anthologies.
Bassett was a regular contributor to The New York Times and Time-Life,and was an independent producer for National Public Radio. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Condé Nast Traveler and numerous other national publications. She teaches environmental writing and literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon.
Journalist and educator Carol Ann Bassett will speak about her research, writing and photography on the Galápagos Islands and present a slideshow from her book Galapagos at the Crossroads. Her book documents the importance, uniqueness and fragility of the islands, now an endangered UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Galápagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin’s Cradle of Evolution (National Geographic Society Books, 2009) examines “colliding values between humans and the natural world in one Earth’s last paradises, and offers solutions on how to conserve the islands before it’s too late.”
Carol Ann Bassett is an author and educator at the University of Oregon where she teaches environmental writing and literary nonfiction and directs an on-going summer program, ”Environmental Writing in the Galápagos.“ She has written Organ Pipe: Life on the Edge (Desert Places series, University of Arizona Press, 2004) and A Gathering of Stones: Journeys to the Edges of a Changing World (Oregon State University Press, 2002), a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction. Her essays have been anthologized in American Nature Writing and in The Mountain Reader, a Nature Conservancy book. A regular contributor to The New York Times and Time-Life, Inc., she has also written for The Nation, Mother Jones, The Los Angeles Times, Condé Nast Traveler and other publications and won numerous awards for her work.
For more about the author: http://www.carolannbassett.com/
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