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"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 and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

"Brilliantly creative . . . An audacious intellectual adventure . . . His thought experiment is so intellectually fascinating, so oddly playful, that it escapes categorizing and clichés. . . . It sucks us in with a vision of what is, what has been, and what is yet to come. . . . It's a trumpet call that sounds from the other end of the universe and from inside us all."--Salon

"An astonishing mass of reportage that envisions a world suddenly bereft of humans."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"A fascinating nonfiction eco-thriller . . . Weisman's gripping fantasy will make most readers hope that at least some of us can stick around long enough to see how it all turns out."--The New York Times Book Review

"Alan Weisman has produced, if not a bible, at least a Book of Revelation."--Newsweek

"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."--The Washington Post

"Extraordinarily farsighted . . . Beautiful and passionate."--The Boston Globe

"Grandly entertaining."--Time

"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

"A refreshing, and oddly hopeful, look at the fate of the environment."--BusinessWeek

"This book is the very DNA of hope."--The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

</div></div></div></div>]]> 79216 3.80 5590 1610 2007 2 7 false Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 14:26:14 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 13:17:48 -0800 2008 The World Without Us, Alan Weisman attempts to answer the question of what would happen to the earth if, for whatever reason, humans were to completely disappear tomorrow. While it’s a fascinating premise, one that Weisman undoubtedly put a lot of time and effort into, the execution falters. In...more...]]>