Books by Alan Weisman
“I absolutely love this book. It’s a wonderful hybrid of speculative nonfiction, nature writing, science. The World Without Us describes what would happen not if human society collapsed but if humans simply disappeared overnight. Say some disease wiped out all humans or, you know, an evil wizard snapped his fingers and humans disappeared. He moves meticulously around the world—through different environments, from cities to suburbs, different materials—and asks what would happen next. How long would it be before our warm, dry, comfortable houses deteriorated? Before trees grew up through the motorways and buddleia colonised the streets?” Read more...
The best books on The End of the World
Paul Cooper, Historian
Interviews where books by Alan Weisman were recommended
The best books on The End of the World, recommended by Paul Cooper
The fall of empires and sudden societal collapse are often the subject matter of darkly fascinating reads, in both fiction and nonfiction. Here Paul Cooper—the author of Fall of Civilizations, a new history book based on the hit podcast—recommends five books that offer perspectives on what it might feel like to live through the ‘end of the world.’
