David W. Orr. 2004. Island Press, Washington, DC. 192 pp. $20 hardcover.

Readers of David Orr's previous work will be delighted, though I suspect not surprised, to learn that he has written yet another landmark book. The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror is a timely collection of 13 essays, most of which appeared originally in the journal Conservation Biology. The essays contained in The Last Refuge are diverse, ranging from an examination of the environmental movement's shortcomings to a scathing critique of Bjørn Lomborg's controversial book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. If the essays are viewed as a whole, however, they constitute a coherent jeremiad against the prevailing political, economic, and cultural values of modern America.