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The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
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One of The New Yorker’s “Essential Reads” of the Year One of NPR’s “Books We Love” of the Year Longlisted for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award “[An] epic exploration of human innovation and destruction.” —Josie Glausiusz, Nature 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.
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