The Human Age – The World Shaped By Us - Hardcover

In this amazingly illuminating book, Diane Ackerman explains our future with her typically intoxicating blend of scholarship, wisdom, grace and humor.--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies

Ackerman is a gorgeous writer and perceptive observer. Here she writes with great empathy about the human plight.--Kate Tuttle

Exquisite and startling.--Tim Flannery

With this stirringly vivid, darkbright manifesto, Diane Ackerman summons us to the wager of sheer possibility: life against death, delight still (if only just barely) trouncing despair.--Lawrence Weschler, author of Everything that Rises, Pulitzer Prize finalist

An ode to the planet we've created for ourselves... Rarely grim, and the overwhelming spirit is one of relentless optimism.--Nathanial Rich

[Ackerman] raises the bar for her peers...her penetrating insight is a joy to behold.

A hard look at the impact that humans have had on Earth... thought provoking.--Kyle Anderson

[A] thought-provoking analysis of our connection to the earth... A lens that magnifies and clarifies the fascinating, far-reaching effects humans have had on our planet and ourselves.--Lee E. Cart

A book to dip around in--skimming some parts and perusing others with care--as your interest guides you, enjoying Ackerman's profound sense of mind play as you go.--Ben Dickinson

A humdinger of a book... Ackerman is optimistic, even exhilarated, and frequently giddy about the future of humanity.--Jon Christensen

A beautifully-written, insightful and urgent enquiry into man's relationship with nature and our impact on the planet.