Winner of the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for NonfictionLonglisted for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardOne of The New Yorker's Essential Reads of 2024 • One of NPR's Books We Love for 2024[An] epic exploration of human innovation and destruction. —Josie Glausiusz, NatureA brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years.
