Rowan Jacobsen

Rowan Jacobsen is the James Beard Award-winning author of A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur’s Guide to Oyster Eating in North America and Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis. He has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, Harper’s, Saveur, Eating Well, Wondertime, The Art of Eating, and others. His newest book, The Living Shore, about our ancient connection to estuaries, and their potential to heal the oceans, will be published in September. His next project, American Terroir, will be released in 2010. He lives in Vermont with his wife and son.

 

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"Written with a passion that gives this exploration of colony collapse disorder real buzz... Jacobsen invests solid investigative journalism with a poet's voice to craft a fact-heavy book that soars." —Publisher's Weekly