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    Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier
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    Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier
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    Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier

    Written by Emily Brady

    Narrated by Sonny Warner, Will Collyer, Dan Woren and Erin Bennett

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    About this audiobook

    In the vein of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and Deborah Feldman's Unorthodox, journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture--one that marijuana built.

    Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier

    Say the words "Humboldt County" to a stranger and you might receive a knowing grin. The name is infamous, and yet the place, and its inhabitants, have been nearly impenetrable. Until now.

    Humboldt is a narrative exploration of an insular community in Northern California, which for nearly 40 years has existed primarily on the cultivation and sale of marijuana. It's a place where business is done with thick wads of cash and savings are buried in the backyard. In Humboldt County, marijuana supports everything from fire departments to schools, but it comes with a heavy price. As legalization looms, the community stands at a crossroads and its inhabitants are deeply divided on the issue--some want to claim their rightful heritage as master growers and have their livelihood legitimized, others want to continue reaping the inflated profits of the black market.

    Emily Brady spent a year living with the highly secretive residents of Humboldt County, and her cast of eccentric, intimately drawn characters take us into a fascinating, alternate universe. It's the story of a small town that became dependent on a forbidden plant, and of how everything is changing as marijuana goes mainstream.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateJun 18, 2013
    ISBN9781478978114
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    Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier
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    Emily Brady

    Emily Brady is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. She works in the areas of aesthetics and philosophy of art, environmental ethics, environmental humanities, and animal studies. She has published widely in aesthetics and environmental philosophy, and her most recent book is The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics and Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

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    • 4/5
      Thought=provoking, yet easy to read, this is a snapshot of life in southern Humboldt County, California.
    • 5/5
      gripping and nuanced read, no easy answers, an important piece of American history and culture