The World Without Us

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THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER THAT ANSWERS THE ULTIMATE QUESTION: WHAT HAPPENS TO THE EARTH WHEN HUMAN BEINGS DISAPPEAR?
TIME MAGAZINE 1 NONFICTION BOOK OF 2007 ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY 1 NONFICTION BOOK OF 2007 FINALIST FOR THE 2007 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
"Brilliantly creative An audacious intellectual adventure His thought experiment is so intellecmally fascinating, so oddly playful, that it escapes
categorizing and clichés____It sucks us in with a vision of what is, what has been,
and what is yet to come____It's a trumpet call that sounds from the
other end of the universe and from inside us all." —Salon
"An astonishing mass of reportage that envisions a world suddenly bereft of humans. — Tbe Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A fascinating nonfiction eco-thriller Weisman's gripping fantasy will make most readers hope that at least some of us can stick around long enough to see how it all turns out." — The New York Times Book Review
"Alan Weisman has produced, if not a... Tovább

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THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER THAT ANSWERS THE ULTIMATE QUESTION: WHAT HAPPENS TO THE EARTH WHEN HUMAN BEINGS DISAPPEAR?
TIME MAGAZINE 1 NONFICTION BOOK OF 2007 ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY 1 NONFICTION BOOK OF 2007 FINALIST FOR THE 2007 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
"Brilliantly creative An audacious intellectual adventure His thought experiment is so intellecmally fascinating, so oddly playful, that it escapes
categorizing and clichés____It sucks us in with a vision of what is, what has been,
and what is yet to come____It's a trumpet call that sounds from the
other end of the universe and from inside us all." —Salon
"An astonishing mass of reportage that envisions a world suddenly bereft of humans. — Tbe Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A fascinating nonfiction eco-thriller Weisman's gripping fantasy will make most readers hope that at least some of us can stick around long enough to see how it all turns out." — The New York Times Book Review
"Alan Weisman has produced, if not a Bible, at least a Book of Revelation."
—Newsweek
"The book boasts an amazingly imaginative conceit that manages to tap into underlying fears and subtly inspire us to consider our interaction with the planet."
— The Washington Post
"Extraordinarily farsighted Beautiful and passionate." — The Boston Globe
"Grandly entertaining." — Time
''The World Without Us gradually reveals itself to be one of the most satisfying environmental books of recent memory, one devoid of self-righteousness, alarmism, or tiresome doomsaying." —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"A refreshing, and oddly hopeful, look at the fate of the environment."
—Business Week
"This book is the very DNA of hope." — T/^i Globe and Mail (Toronto) Vissza