The Burning Earth

Winner of the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award One 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, Nature A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years.