Top 10 Nonfiction Books
The World Without Us
By Alan Weisman
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
320 pages
$24.95
By Alan Weisman
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
320 pages
$24.95
#1. The World Without Us
by Alan
Weisman
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
320 pages
$24.95
A thought-experiment: What would become of the earth if humanity were to
softly and silently and suddenly vanish away? What starts as a morbid
parlor game becomes a mesmerizing and grandly entertaining meditation on
how horrifically humanity has managed to perturb our little planet, and
with what wonderful blithe resilience said planet will shrug off all our
works once we're gone. Weisman writes like Malcolm Gladwell and John
McPhee mashed together and set on fast-forward in this spirit-enlarging,
screech-free hymn to the environment.
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