- Published: 15 June 2022
- ISBN: 9781784709167
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $22.99
Under a White Sky
The Nature of the Future
- Published: 15 June 2022
- ISBN: 9781784709167
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $22.99
A terrific look at humanity's impact on the Earth (praise for: The Sixth Extinction)
Bill Gates
A wonderful book (praise for: The Sixth Extinction)
Barack Obama
This is the big story of our age (praise for: The Sixth Extinction)
Sunday Times
Well-composed snapshots of history, theory and observation that will fascinate, enlighten and appal many readers (praise for: The Sixth Extinction)
Guardian
A distinctive and eloquent voice of conscience... timely, meticulously researched and well-written (praise for: The Sixth Extinction)
Al Gore, New York Times
Compelling (praise for: The Sixth Extinction)
Observer
Remarkable (praise for: The Sixth Extinction)
Sunday Telegraph
Read this book (praise for: The Sixth Extinction)
Independent
Elizabeth Kolbert's cautionary tale, The Sixth Extinction, offers us a cogent overview of a harrowing biological challenge. The reporting is exceptional, the contextualizing exemplary (praise for: The Sixth Extinction)
Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon
The Sixth Mass Extinction is the biggest story on Earth, period, and Elizabeth Kolbert tells it with imagination, rigor, deep reporting, and a capacious curiosity about all the wondrous creatures and ecosystems that exist, or have existed, on our planet. The result is an important book full of love and loss (praise for: The Sixth Extinction)
David Quammen, author of The Song of the Dodo and Spillover
A master elucidator, Kolbert is gratifyingly direct as she assesses our predicament between a rock and a hard place, creating a clarion and invaluable 'book about people trying to solve problems created by people trying to solve problems
Booklist
Every paragraph of Kolbert's books has a mountain of reading and reporting behind it.... Urgent, absolutely necessary reading as a portrait of our devastated planet
Kirkus Review
Brilliantly executed and urgently necessary
Publishers Weekly
Our finest journalist on climate change
Chicago Tribune
This intimate natural history is both a sober assessment of the ecosystems we have harmed and an exciting description of some of the discoveries that could help undo that damage
Scientific American
A tale not of magic-bullet remedies where maybe this time things will be different when we intervene in nature, but rather of deploying a panoply of strategies big and small in hopes that there is still time to make a difference and atone for our past. A sobering and realistic look at humankind's perhaps misplaced faith that technology can work with nature to produce a more liveable planet
Library Journal
Kolbert's prose is peppered with...mordant observations, which bring out the humanity (or animality) in her subjects
Ben Cooke, The Times
Riveting... inspiring... the premier chronicler of humanity's thoughtless destruction of our habitat
Washington Post
One of the great science journalists, Kolbert has for many years been an essential voice, a reporter from the front lines of the environmental crisis... Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting... Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment; time to work with what we have, using the knowledge we have, with our eyes fully open to the realities of where we are
HELEN MACDONALD, New York Times
Under a White Sky... exhibits Kolbert's sculptor-like skill for making climate change feel tangible, happening before our eyes and beneath our fingers
Matt Reynolds, Wired
A meticulously researched and deftly crafted work of journalism that explores some of the biggest challenges of our age
Jonathan Watts, Guardian
Skilful and subtle
Ben Ehrenreich, Guardian
Fascinating
Chris Fitch, Geographical
To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert. . . . It's a tribute to Kolbert's skills as a storyteller that she transforms the quest to deal with the climate crisis into a darkly comic tale of human hubris and imagination that could either end in flames or in a new vision of Paradise
Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone
A superb and honest reflection of our extraordinary time
Nature
In Under a White Sky...Elizabeth Kolbert...[combines] curiosity with an acerbic wit to explore humanity's obsession with controlling nature... Kolbert's skill is in presenting compelling stories from the Anthropocene and letting us judge for ourselves
James Dacey, Physics World
Smart
Bill Gates
Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting
Helen Macdonald, New York Times
Riveting
Washington Post
A meticulously researched and deftly crafted work of journalism that explores some of the biggest challenges of our age
Guardian
A superb and honest reflection of our extraordinary time
Nature