Prologue Chapter One: The Alaska Storm Chapter Two: The Beetle, the Bus, and the Carbon Castle Chapter Three: The Lodgepole Tsunami Chapter Four: The War against the Insect Enemy Chapter Five: In the Wake of the Beetle Chapter Six: The Ghost Forest Chapter Seven: The Song of the Beetle Chapter Eight: The Sheath-Winged Cosmos Chapter Nine: The Two Dianas Chapter Ten: The Parable of the Worm Sources and Further Information Acknowledgements Index
Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has
written about education, economics, and the environment for the
last two decades. His books include Pandemonium, Saboteurs: Wiebo
Ludwig's War Against Oil, which won the Governor General's Literary
Award for Non-Fiction, and The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of
Plagues, Scourges and Emerging Viruses. His bestselling book Tar
Sands won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award.
"Nikiforuk leavens this tragic, instructive history with curious facts about the complex, intelligent insect"-Publishers Weekly "Sometimes called the "Katrina of the West," these infestations received very little publicity but caused the loss of millions of dollars worth of lumber ...Well written and informative... Highly Recommended"- Choice Reviews "A terrific book on a terrifying subject... a chilling, fascinating, and important contribution to our understanding of a rapidly changing world."- John Vaillant, author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce "A compelling look at what may be the single biggest impact of climate change, and a harbinger of life to come on a warming planet." -Jim Robbins, Science Journalist, The New York Times "Empire of the Beetle is a work of great skill and passion, and vital to anyone courageous enough to be interested in the ecology of the future."-Rick Bass, author of Winter: Notes From Montana "[T]he Iliad of the bark beetles. It really demonstrates how intertwined nature is... as Andrew shows so well, we are part of nature." -John Perlin, leading U.S. solar energy expert and author of A Forest Journey
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