Becoming Earth
27 June 2024Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A radically thought-provoking account of a major shift in how we understand our Earth, not simply as an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather as a planet that came to life.
'Wide-ranging and thought-provoking . . . with lashings of anecdote and well-turned, elegant metaphor' – The Guardian
'Full of achingly beautiful passages, mind-bending conceptual twists, and wonderful characters' –...
Details
27 June 2024567 minutes
Joe Ochman
9781529038231Imprint: Picador
Reviews
This is the book I'd been waiting for. It tells my favorite kind of science story: one that seems at first counter-intuitive, but then quickly becomes obviously true – a story so important and compelling that I am going to be recommending it for years.Hank Green, co-host of Vlogbrothers
Becoming Earth is a glorious paean to our living world, full of achingly beautiful passages, mind-bending conceptual twists, and wonderful characters. Ferris Jabr reveals how Earth not only gave rise to life, and now teems with it, but has also been profoundly, miraculously shaped by it.Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and author of An Immense World, winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize
I did not expect to experience joy when I opened Becoming Earth, but I did, and I do. The ambition, eloquence, and erudition in this dragonfly droneflight of a book are absolutely exhilarating.John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather and winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2023
An astonishing book, weaving together science, history, and the author's unfailingly precise observations with the grace of a poet.Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
