{"product_id":"the-great-bay-chronicles-of-the-collapse-paperback","title":"The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDale Pendell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***WINNER, Best Science Fiction, 2010 Green Book Festival \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased in scientific reality, Dale Pendell presents a powerful fictional vision of a fast-approaching future in which sea levels rise and a decimated population must find new ways to live. \u003ci\u003eThe Great Bay\u003c\/i\u003e begins in 2021 with a worldwide pandemic followed by the gradual rising of the seas. Pendell's vision is all encompassing--he describes the rising seas' impact on countries and continents around the world. But his imaginative storytelling focuses on California. A \"great bay\" forms in California's Central Valley and expands during a 16,000-year period. As the years pass, and technology seems to regress, even memory of a \"precollapse\" world blends into myth. Grizzly bears and other large predators return to the California hills, and civilization reverts to a richly imagined medieval society marked by guilds and pilgrimages, followed even later by hunting and gathering societies. Pendell's focus is on the lives of people struggling with love, wars, and physical survival thousands of years in California's future. He deftly mixes poetic imagery, news-reporting-style writing, interviews with survivors, and maps documenting the geographic changes. In the end, powerful human values that have been with us for 40,000 years begin to reemerge and remind us that they are desperately needed--in the present.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDale Pendell is a widely published author and poet. A consultant for herbal product development and botanical surveys, and a computer scientist, he founded \u003ci\u003eKuksu: Journal of Backcountry Writing\u003c\/i\u003e and cofounded the Primitive Arts Institute. He lives in Penn Valley, CA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 08, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770580435232,"sku":"9781623174026","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bce55e41ca5ae3006a7e306dc28323aa.webp?v=1780374366","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-great-bay-chronicles-of-the-collapse-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}