University of Oxford. Trained as a physicist and climate scientist, he holds a doctorate from Princeton University, where he was a NASA Earth Systems Science Fellow. He has been a research scientist at MIT and was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was one of the leaders of its Sustainability and Resource Productivity Practice, and the chief strategy officer and global ambassador for water at The Nature Conservancy, one of the world’s largest environmental organizations.
Boccaletti's new book is Water: A Biography.
At Lit Hub he tagged ten top books about water, including:
John McPhee, The Control of NatureRead about another entry on the list.
Reading McPhee is to immerse oneself in a masterclass of non-fiction writing. If you have not read his work, you are in for atreat. To read him is to be a student of his craft. One cannot help but admire the images he can conjure through character portraits, minute stories, and vivid landscapes. But, if your purpose is to write non-fiction, as was mine when I read this book for a second time, it might set an impossible standard. The first essay of this book, “Atchafalaya”, describes the archetype of our battle with nature through the management of water: that of holding back the Mississippi from its inevitable escape to unbridled freedom.
The Control of Nature is among Bill Streever's six favorite books about science and Nick Offerman’s twelve favorite books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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