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Life on a Little-Known Planet

Dispatches from a Changing World

‘To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert’ Rolling Stone

Urgent lessons from the frontline of the climate catastrophe – from one of our most important writers on the environment and natural world, author of the seminal The Sixth Extinction and Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Kolbert.

In Life on a Little-Known Planet, we join Kolbert on the road as she travels to the places most dramatically affected by global warming, such as Greenland’s rapidly melting icesheets and Utah’s shrinking lakes. On the way, we encounter newly discovered species and the last living members of others. We learn how to bring animals back from the brink of extinction, and see the power of rewilding up-close.

We also meet countless brilliant and dedicated individuals who are steering us towards a better future: scientists harnessing AI to talk to whales; activists lobbying for the rights of nature; and ordinary people making extraordinary moves, like the Samsø islanders leading a completely carbon-neutral life.

Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our age. The natural world is changing profoundly, and the threats to our planet will only grow more serious. Now is the time to deepen our understanding of this incredible world we are in danger of losing – to act, while we still can.

Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting

Helen Macdonald, New York Times, on Under a White Sky

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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  • Imprint: Bodley Head
  • ISBN: 9781847929051
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Price: £25.00
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