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A beautifully-written, insightful and urgent enquiry into man's relationship with nature and our impact on the planet.
A dazzling achievement: immensely readable, lively, polymathic, audacious.
Full of scientific nuggets and bundles of research, this is written in an accessible and entertaining style.
Diane Ackerman has been the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction in addition to many other awards and recognitions for her work, which include the international bestsellers The Zookeeper's Wife and A Natural History of the Senses. She lives with her husband Paul West in Ithaca, New York.