- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- ISBN: 9781529972757
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Life on a Little-Known Planet
Dispatches from a Changing World
Chris Goodall, author of What We Need to Do NowNo one rivals Kolbert’s ability to write deeply, empathetically and engagingly about mankind’s relationship with the physical world ... She brings curiosity and persistence to the most important issues facing humankind
Chris Fitch, author of Wild CitiesThere is surely no better way to understand our changing world than through the uniquely engaging perspectives provided by Elizabeth Kolbert. Joining her on this round-the-world voyage to some of the most incredible places on Earth is a treat ... Immensely sobering yet also inspiring
Helen Macdonald, New York TimesPRAISE FOR ELIZABETH KOLBERT'S PREVIOUS BOOKS
One of the great science journalists, Kolbert has for many years been an essential voice, a reporter from the front lines of the environmental crisis ... Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting
GuardianA meticulously researched and deftly crafted work of journalism that explores some of the biggest challenges of our age
Barack ObamaA wonderful book
Bill GatesA terrific look at humanity's impact on the Earth
Washington Post[Kolbert is] the premier chronicler of humanity's thoughtless destruction of our habitat
Rolling StoneTo be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert … It’s a tribute to Kolbert’s skills as a storyteller that she transforms the quest to deal with the climate crisis into a darkly comic take of human hubris and imagination that could either end in flames or in a new vision of paradise
Chicago TribuneOur finest journalist on climate change
Lit HubKolbert’s beat is examining the impact of humans on the environment, and she does it better than basically everyone
About Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert is a prize-winning journalist, author and visiting fellow at Williams College, Massachusetts. She is the author of The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Under a White Sky and H is for Hope. She has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1999 and has been awarded the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.
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