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informative
slow-paced
4.0
This isn't really interesting look at coal mining, energy production, and energy consumption. I'm from an area close to the Lehigh River, and it hadn't even occurred to me to look into my local history in that way. Barbara Freese goes into fantastic detail about the history of coal production, it's current iteration, and the different types of coal and their impacts on the environment in terms of both their extraction and their burning. It's a fascinating subject and the book is really well written. I hadn't thought that industrial history would be something that interested me, but I was curious about how the book would address my local area and had remembered a friend whose grandfather worked in coal mining when I stumbled across this book. I'm really glad that I read it and I think I may look for more books in this genre in the future.
Content Warnings
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Slavery, and Fire/Fire injury
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