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Jeremy Thomas Gilmer Book Launch @ Gallery 78

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Wed, 03 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

796 Queen St, Fredericton, NB E3B 1C6, Canada

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Jeremy Thomas Gilmer Book Launch @ Gallery 78
Westminster Bookmark and Véhicule Press press are excited to present the Fredericton launch of Jeremy Thomas Gilmer's nonfiction debut, This Rare Earth: Building the Dams, Mines and Megaprojects that Run Our World.

Hosted by acclaimed author Lisa Alward, this free event will include a reading from Jeremy, a discussion moderated by Dr. John Ball, and a signing.

The launch takes place at the beautiful Gallery 78 (796 Queen St.) on Wednesday, September 3rd, 7pm.

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THIS RARE EARTH is a graphic account of twenty-five years working for some of the largest mining and engineering companies in the world. Much of this work was conducted in conflict zones where Jeremy Thomas Gilmer supervised the construction of dams, mine tailings structures, and oil and gas facilities. Through personal stories and detailed observations, he brings to life the daily realities of those caught in the crossfire of progress—miners, villagers, and local leaders who grapple with the promises and perils of development.

Gilmer describes nerve-wracking situations dealing with corrupt authorities, natural disasters, and project failure. He writes about his time in Northern Angola at the end of a bloody civil war, discusses building a gold mine in cartel territory in Colombia, and looking for water in the windswept pampa of southern Argentina. He writes about crawling a kilometer into a pipe in the high Andes to inspect damage and about night shifts at a vast Arctic diamond mine. He has driven through a blazing jungle in Eastern Bolivian forest fires and survived tense standoffs with armed Pork-knockers, or South American itinerant miners.

Gilmer writes from a place rarely heard from in the debate: an industry linked not only to the environmental challenges we face as a species, but to the very systems our lives— and economy—depend on. This Rare Earth is an unsparing, thought-provoking, and frankly confessional dive into the unseen costs of our technological and industrial addictions.

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“Subtly yet powerfully, Gilmer asks the hard questions: what are we doing to the only home we all have, and how can we save it and ourselves from the coming global storm? ”
–Heather McBriarty, The Seaboard Review of Books

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JEREMY THOMAS GILMER is a writer of short fiction and nonfiction. He grew up in Nigeria, Northern Ireland, and Canada, and has lived and worked in over forty countries. He lives in Saint John, New Brunswick.

LISA ALWARD's debut short story collection, Cocktail, was long-listed for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and won both the New Brunswick 2024 Mrs. Dunster's Fiction Prize and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. She lives in Fredericton.

Dr. JOHN BALL is a professor of English at UNB Fredericton. He is the author of Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis (University of Toronto Press, 2004) and Satire and the Postcolonial Novel: V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie (Routledge, 2003). He was also editor or co-editor of UNB’s journal Studies in Canadian Literature from 1996-2013.



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Jeremy Thomas Gilmer Book Launch @ Gallery 78, 3 September | Event in Fredericton | AllEvents
Jeremy Thomas Gilmer Book Launch @ Gallery 78
Wed, 03 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm