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Elizabeth kolbert, author of field notes from a catastrophe toms river is an epic tale for our chemical age. Toms river also won the helen bernstein book award for excellence in journalism, the national academies communication award, and the rachel carson environment book. As a librarian, i learned the value of storytelling, both from the. John rivers, an eminent nutritionist who worked at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine carrying out pioneering work on famine relief in ethiopia. A little further down stream they stop at a neighbors house only to find it.
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