The sensitives : the rise of environmental illness and the search for America's last pure place

Summary: "A compelling exploration of the mysteries of environmental toxicity and the community of 'sensitives'--people with powerful, puzzling symptoms resulting from exposure to chemicals, fragrances, and cell phone signals, that have no effect on 'normals'"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781982128500
ISBN: 198212850X
ISBN: 9781982128524
ISBN: 1982128526
ISBN: 9781982128548
Physical Description: print
viii, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-325) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The disappearance of Brian Welsh -- On the run -- The comfort of guns -- Crazy Charlie -- Ignorance ain't easy -- Down into the country -- The word from Snowflake -- The work of the devil -- Paiute forestry -- The story of color -- Poison unleashed -- Quackery's great-granddad -- Toughing it out -- Hyenas, nukes, and tornadoes -- Snowflake -- The figure in the static -- The gospel of Dr. Gray -- Prescribing the north wind -- Edmund Husserl would like a word -- What you can learn from a butterfly -- Alone with orcas -- The king of the forest -- Goodbye to the pines -- Bernhoft's judgment.