The World Without Us

Time

Entertainment Weekly

Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award

Salon

Amazon Top 100 Editors’ Picks of 2007 (#4)

Barnes and Noble 10 Best of 2007: Politics and Current Affairs

Kansas City Star

Mother Jones

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Hudson

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Paul Pioneer Press

If human beings disappeared instantaneously from the Earth, what would happen? How would the planet reclaim its surface? What creatures would emerge from the dark and swarm? How would our treasured structures—our tunnels, our bridges, our homes, our monuments—survive the unmitigated impact of a planet without our intervention? In his revelatory, bestselling account, Alan Weisman draws on every field of science to present an environmental assessment like no other, the most affecting portrait yet of humankind's place on this planet.