James Crawford

@Jdcrawf

THE VANISHING EARTH @bloomsburypub @scribeukbooks | WILD HISTORY @BirlinnBooks | Presenter @BBCRadio4 TAKE FOUR BOOKS | Editor @PolygonBooks | CHAIR @edbookfest

Edinburgh, Scotland jamescrawford.space Joined May 2009

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James Crawford @Jdcrawf Feb 17

🚨COVER REVEAL! 🚨
Several years in the writing, my new book, THE VANISHING EARTH is an odyssey to the frontiers of extraction & to the radical alternatives emerging just as we threaten to exhaust the earth's natural resources... OUT AUG/SEP from @scribepub & @BloomsburyPub

James Crawford @Jdcrawf Oct 23

I talked to @bbcworldservice The Climate Question about my new book THE VANISHING EARTH 👇🎧📚

BBC World Service @bbcworldservice Oct 19

Lithium and copper are crucial to the energy transition, but at what environmental cost?

🎧 Why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that bbc.in/3VHDdPc
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James Crawford @Jdcrawf Aug 12

Extract from my new book THE VANISHING EARTH in @WIRED - as well as journeying to physical landscapes of extraction I also consider what may be extraction’s final frontier - our individual thoughts, the coal face our consciousness… @BloomsburyPub

WIRED Verified account @WIRED Aug 12

Silicon Valley companies are already working on neurotechnology products that track your brain activity. The next privacy frontier might be the things you only think. wired.com/story/book-exc…
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James Crawford @Jdcrawf Jun 23

This week on #TakeFourBooks on @BBCRadio4 I was talking to Maggie O’Farrell @author_magfarr about new novel LAND, what it means to map a country, & her 3 influences, including Jospeh O’Connor and Marie Heaney - listen now! 🎧📚📻👇

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

James Crawford @Jdcrawf Jun 9

“A dizzying feat of reporting” - delighted with this pre-pub starred review from @PublishersWkly for my forthcoming book THE VANISHING EARTH from @BloomsburyPub and @scribepub!

Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly Jun 8

Historian and journalist Crawford takes readers on ‘a journey to the literal and ideological frontiers of extraction’ in this sweeping account of the toll the pursuit of endless economic growth has taken on the planet. buff.ly/XZdhpJB
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