Legacy of Luna

On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from 'Luna,' a thousand-year-old redwood in Humboldt County, California. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree to stop Pacific Lumber, a division of the Maxxam Corporation, from the environmentally destructive process of clear-cutting the ancient redwood and the trees around it. Over the course of what turned into an historic civil action, Hill endured El Nino storms, helicopter harassment, a ten-day siege by company security guards, and the tremendous sorrow brought about by an old-growth forest's destruction. This story-written while she lived on a tiny platform eighteen stories off the ground-is one that only she can tell. 'My respect for Julia Butterfly Hill is fathomless. At a time when so many have grown disheartened at the inability of any one person to make a difference, Julia's action has profoundly re-energized the environmental movement all over the world. She will continue to be a major force in galvanizing the call to change the way corporations and uncaring governments do business with Mother Earth.'-Bonnie Raitt

Product details

• Authors: Julia Hill, Julia Butterfly Hill, Hill Julia Butterfly
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.04.2001
• EAN: 9780062516596
• ISBN: 978-0-06-251659-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; HISTORY: WORLD, HISTORY: Social History, ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: ACTIVISM & LIFESTYLE, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: General, NATURE: General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Authorship, NATURE: Environmental Conservation & Protection, WOMEN'S STUDIES: MEMOIR & BIO, PHILOSOPHY: Movements / General