The Burning Earth

An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
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

"[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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