Local favorite, author David Gessner returns to Crested Butte with his latest book, A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World : Tales of Fire, Wind, and Water published by Torrey House Press. 

In A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World, David Gessner asks what the world will be like in 2064, when his daughter, Hadley, is the same age he was when she was born. What is the future of weather? Of heat, storms, and fire? Today, the world is burning and the seas are rising. What was once predicted is now here. In this eye-opening tour of climate hotspots, Gessner takes readers from the Gulf of Mexico to the burning American West to New York City to the fragile Outer Banks, where homes are being swallowed by the seas. With his usual sense of humor, compassion, and a willingness to talk to anyone, Gessner considers earth’s extremes in a story of climate crisis that will both entertain and shake people awake to the necessity of navigating this new age together.