The World Without Us Audiobook

Quotes

• “A morbidly fascinating nonfiction eco-thriller.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Extraordinarily farsighted…Beautiful and passionate.”

  — Boston Globe

• “This book is the very DNA of hope.”

  — Globe and Mail (Toronto)

• “I don’t think I’ve read a better nonfiction book this year.”

  — Time

• “An astonishing mass of reportage that envisions a world suddenly bereft of humans.”

  — Atlanta Journal-Constitution

• “A refreshing, and oddly hopeful, look at the fate of the environment.”

  — BusinessWeek

• “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.”

  — Washington Post

• “One of the most ambitious ‘thought experiments’ ever.”

  — Cincinnati Enquirer

• “Alan Weisman has produced, if not a Bible, at least a Book of Revelation.”

  — Newsweek

• “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

• “In his provocative new book, The World Without Us, Alan Weisman adds a dash of fiction to his science to address a despairing problem: the planet’s health.”

  — US News & World Report

• “[A] superbly well-researched and skillfully crafted stop-you-in-your-tracks report.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “Weisman’s enthralling tour of the world of tomorrow explores what little will remain of ancient times while anticipating, often poetically, what a planet without us would be like.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• It's narrative nonfiction at its finest, taking an irresistible concept with gravity and a highly-readable touch.

  — Ebooks30.com

• The imaginative power of The World is Flat is compulsive and nearly hypnotic--make sure you have time to be kidnapped into Alan Weisman's alternative world before you sit down with the book, because you won't soon return. This is a text that has a chance to change people, and so make a real difference for the planet.

  — Charles Wohlforth, author of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner The Whale and the Supercomputer

• An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking…the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me with repeated gasps of recognition about the human condition. I believe it will be a classic.

  — Dennis Covington, author of NBA Finalist Salvation on Sand Mountain

• This is one of the grandest thought experiments of our time, a tremendous feat of imaginative reporting!

  — Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

• “Offers us a sketch of where we stand as a species that is both illuminating and terrifying. His tone is conversational and his affection for both Earth and humanity transparent.

  — Barry Lopez, National Book Award-winner