Alan Weisman





Alan Weisman

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Alan Weisman's reports from around the world have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Orion, Wilson Quarterly, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, Discover, Audubon, Condé Nast Traveler, and in many anthologies, including Best American Science Writing 2006. His most recent book, The World Without Us, a bestseller translated into 30 languages, was named the Best Nonfiction Book of 2007 by both Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly, the #1 Nonfiction Audiobook of 2007 by iTunes; a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction, for the Orio...more


Average rating: 3.79 · 16,379 ratings · 2,405 reviews · 12 distinct works · Similar authors
The World Without Us
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 15,852 ratings — published 2007 — 42 editions
Gaviotas: A Village to Rein...
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
An Echo in My Blood: The Se...
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1999
Countdown: Our Last Best Ho...
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 2013 — 5 editions
La Frontera: The United Sta...
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions
Homo Disparitus: Essai
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008
Lone Star: The Extraordinar...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008
Countdown: Our Last, Best H...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2013
Prince of Darkness: Richard...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011
The World We Have: A Buddhi...
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
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“Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.”
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

“in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.”
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

“All of us humans have myriad other species to thank. Without them, we couldn't exist. It's that simple, and we can't afford to ignore them, anymore than I can afford to neglect my precious wife--nor the sweet mother Earth that births and holds us all.

Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.”
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

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