Life on a Little-Known Planet, 9781847929051
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Explore Earth’s climate crisis, hope, and the fight for survival.
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Life on a Little-Known Planet

dispatches from a changing world

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  • Hardcover

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    6 November 2025

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Summary

Life on a Little-Known Planet: Urgent Lessons from a World in Crisis

‘To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert’ *Rolling Stone*

Urgent lessons from the frontline of the climate catastrophe – from one of our most important writers on the environment and natural world, author of the seminal The Sixth Extinction and Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Kolbert.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781847929051
ISBN-10:1847929052
Author:Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:The Bodley Head Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:6 November 2025
Weight:750g
Dimensions:240mm x 156mm x 40mm
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Critics Review

Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting – Helen Macdonald * New York Times, on Under a White Sky *A meticulously researched and deftly crafted work of journalism that explores some of the biggest challenges of our age * Guardian, on Under a White Sky *A wonderful book – Barack Obama * on The Sixth Extinction *A terrific look at humanity’s impact on the Earth – Bill Gates * on The Sixth Extinction *

About The Author

Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert is a prize-winning journalist, author and visiting fellow at Williams College, Massachusetts. She is the author of The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Under a White Sky and H is for Hope. She has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1999 and has been awarded the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.

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