- Human-plant relationships, Efecto del ser humano sobre, Nature, Effect of human beings on
The World Without Us, an intriguing peek inside the impact homo sapiens have on the world around us and what will be left when we cease to exist. Alan Weisman intelligently intertwines the affect we have on the Earth and its ecosystems and the way we have damaged it, the things nature can't undo.
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Contemporary, epic, grave and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Alan Weisman
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 348
- Publisher
- Thomas Dunne Books, Debate, Picador
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English, Spanish, Chinese, aze
- ISBN
- 9783492051323
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“Eines Junimorgens im Jahre 2004 saß Ana María Santi gegen dem Pfahl einer ausladenden Überdachung aus Palmblättern gelehnt.”
Alan H. Weisman, an American author, professor, and journalist, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He holds a bachelor's degree in literature and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. From 2004 to 2013 he was Laureate Professor in Journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona. He has also taught writing and journalism at Prescott College and Williams College and has been a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia. He has written several books and won numerous international awards for his work in journalism and literature. His reports from around the world have appeared in leading magazines, and in several anthologies. He is also a producer of radio document
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