I personally found many of the articles contained in this book very thought provoking, even if you don't necessairly agree with him. However it's very niche and I don't think he has a UK market at all.

I had not heard of Wendall Berry, so was intrigued about his philosophy and writing. The book looks at the destruction of the American environment in pursuit of wealth, a destruction that has happened in such a brief history of time and is so thoughtless and extreme that it seems beyond hope of repair while the population of the world expands and demands more than they put back. The writer shows us the ways of the Native Americans,, and how their deep and  irreplaceable knowledge of living in an environment without destroying is very relevant today. 
Having a degree in ecology I am used to reading about mankind's irreversible destruction of the planet, and the sense of hopelessness that this can create. I found this book fascinating but there is some repetitiveness in the message the writer is sharing. For me it is a book not to read through and finish, but to go back to again and again .

Review published on Goodreads on March 23rd 2017

'The World-Ending Fire' by Wendell Berry (selected and introduced by Paul Kingsnorth)

3.5 stars/ 7 out of 10

I have read some previous articles by Wendell Berry, and also have come across several references to him, so I was interested in reading this book.

There are more than thirty articles in 'The World-Ending Fire', written by Berry over a period of more than five decades. In my opinion this is more of a book to dip into, than to read from cover to cover. The articles are a mixed bunch, the majority of them linking to Berry, and to his life in Kentucky as a farmer, a writer, and a thinker.

The most interesting article for me was 'Writer and Region', especially the section about Huckleberry Finn. Several of the other articles were also very interesting eg 'Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer', where I also enjoyed reading the responses to the points that Berry had made in this article.

Kingsnorth writes in the introduction about Berry's 'questing thoughtfulness'. I think this phrase is a good summing-up of both the man himself, and the approach articulated in the articles in this volume.

Thank you to Penguin Books (UK) and to NetGalley for an ARC.