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The Burning Earth: A History
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An accessible, harrowing history of our planet: what we've done to it, where we're headed, what we can do to save it.
Winner of the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction
Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
One of The New Yorker's "Essential Reads" of 2024 • One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2024
A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years.
In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, o...
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