Out of the Channel
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Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound
by John Keeble
Tenth Anniversary Issue
 

Nonfiction
372 Pages
ISBN: 0-910055-53-X
Paper: $14.00
ISBN: 0-910055-54-8
Paper $26.00

  

The new “Tenth Anniversary” edition of Out of the Channel adds to its evocative, original text a new, full assessment of the permutations and twists of big money, big litigation, and “petroleum speak”. It stands at the vantage point of several years' remove, including an account of 1991's $1 billion civil settlement between Exxon, the U.S. Justice Department, and the State of Alaska—the largest such environmental settlement in history. In this definitive book on the oil spill, all the primary concerns of the first edition are updated with new material, such as: a discussion of the possible cause of the ship's grounding on Bligh Reef, the fate of Captain Joseph Hazelwood, the long- term effects of the spill, the projected death toll among animals, the little-known 1993 fishermen's tanker blockade, developing evidence about the true quantity of oil spilled, the benefits and abuses of professional science, and the heartening results of citizen pressure to improve oil shipping procedures in Prince William Sound and to protect fragile habitats.

 
John Keeble, novelist and nonfiction writer, is also the author of Crab Canyon, Yellowfish, Mine (with Ransom Jeffrey), and Broken Ground. He is a professor of creative writing at Eastern Washington University and Visiting Professor of English at the University of Alabama.

 
Praise for Out of the Channel
“ . . . Caught in a net of glossy lies and suppressed information (kept secret by Exxon for use in upcoming, private lawsuits), the residents respond to the spill with tears and nausea. His [Keeble's] novelist's eye searches steadily for small bright spots of courage and determination to counterbalance the evasion and environmental devastation. . . . Because Keeble confronts Exxon's deceptions with childlike wonder rather than hardened rancor, we leave this book with the hopeful feeling that a new start might still be possible.”
—Rick Bass..........
 
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