by Erik Orsenna · FAYARD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213720753
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«La Terre a soif» is Erik Orsenna's travel essay on the world's great rivers, published by Fayard in paperback (432 pages, in French).
Orsenna embarks on a journey along thirty-three rivers of the world, from the Amazon to the small Breton Trieux. On this route, which blends geography and history, he analyzes the ills threatening major waterways: scarcity, unequal distribution, pollution and dams that destroy resources and landscapes.
Subtitled «Guerres et paix aux royaumes des fleuves», it belongs to the series «Petits précis de mondialisation» and was published in 2022.
For non-fiction readers interested in geography, environmental history and water-related conflicts.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
