| LOST MOUNTAIN A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Erik Reece Wendell Berry (Fwd.) John J. Cox (Photog.) New York: Riverhead Books, 2006 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-59448-908-2 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-59448-908-4 | 247p. | HC/BWI | $24.95 | |
| Page 23: | "The liverworts needs moving water to spawn." |
| Number error (probably a typo): S/B "liverwort". |
| Page 24: | "I sit down on the bank, beneath the yellow glow of beech and maples." |
| Number error: S/B "beeches and maples". Perhaps that first one wasn't a typo. |
| Page 70: | "What compounds the problems of mountaintop removal is that when the bedrock is disturbed, it increases in mass by 20 percent..." |
| S/B "increases in volume". |
| Page 83: | "I set my parking break at the usual spot below Lost Mountain and hike to the top." |
| Spelling: S/B "parking brake". |
| Page 110: | "In response, the coal industry, which had initially dismissed the terrible flooding of McRoberts as an act of God, now decided, in Bill Caylor's words, that 'it's improper to drag the Bible into this debate.' " |
| As far as I know, Bill Caylor is not identified. I cannot be sure, because the book has no index. (He's identified on page 127 as president of the Kentucky Coal Association.) |
| Page 127: | "ATSDR didn't even test for acrylamiae, the carcinogenic flocculent used to clean coal." |
| This has got to be a transcription error: S/B "acrylamide". |
| Page 189: | "We parked along the rim of a large pit where two front-end loaders where filling haul trucks with large blocks of sandstone." |
| Typo: S/B "were". |
| Page 209: | "Finally we stopped at a blast hole where men where loading ANFO into a sixty-eight-foot-deep cylinder." |
| Typo: S/B "were". |
| Page 216: | "Serious measures to move toward alternative energies were shuttled by the bill." |
| Typo: S/B "scuttled". |
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