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Nancy's Bookshelf: Ann Vileisis

Ann Vileisis

Environmental historian Ann Vileisis is an award-winning author with three books that explore our human relationship with nature, food, and the environment through history.

 

The author of Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back and Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands, which won awards from the American Historical Association and the American Society for Environmental History.

She stops by Nancy's Bookshelf to explore her latest, Abalone: The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California's Iconic Shellfish.

 

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Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with more than 15 years of experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs.