In the face of widespread misinformation and misunderstanding, a
climate scientist ventures into the vast heart of America's new oil
country on just two wheels. Recently recovered from his epic
bicycle journey that took him from the Delaware shore to the Oregon
coast, distinguished climate scientist David Goodrich sets out on
his bike again to traverse the Western Interior Seaway-an ancient
ocean that once spread across half of North America. When the
waters cleared a geologic age ago, what was left behind was vast,
flat prairie, otherworldly rock formations, and oil shale deposits.
As Goodrich journeys through the Badlands and Theodore Roosevelt
National Park and across the prairies of the upper Midwest and
Canada, we get a raw and ground-level view of where the tar sands
and oil reserves are being opened up at an incredible and
unprecedented pace. Extraordinary and unregulated, this "black
goldrush" is boom and bust in every sense. In a manner reminiscent
of John McPhee and Rachel Carson, combined with Goodrich's wry
self-deprecation and scientific expertise, A Voyage Across an
Ancient Ocean is a galvanizing and adventure-filled read that gets
to the heart of drilling on our continent.
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