English Translation of Paradise Blues: Travels Through American Environmental History Published
05.01.2024
Rachel Carson Center Director Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch initially published his book Paradise Blues: Reisen in die Natur und die Geschichte der USA in German in 2022. Now, it has also been translated into English.
Here is a short description of the book provided by The White Horse Press:
“Paradise Blues is an unconventional history of the United States of America, an unusual travel guide that follows and renders visible the country’s paths of nature, history and civilisation. Christof Mauch is a leading German historian who has spent many years in the US and in this book he attempts, from a European perspective, to grasp the diversity of American culture and the transformation of its environments, combining travel reporting with nature writing, personal observation and philosophical reflection. Mauch seeks the familiar in unfamiliar places and the curious in places that seem common and well-known.”
The English version is now available for free on the Environment & Society Portal.
The print version is currently available at a discount on The White Horse Press website (with voucher code paradise24).