The Last Tree on Easter Island: Jared Diamond (Green Ideas) - Softcover

Diamond, Jared

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141997060 ISBN 13: 9780141997063

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2021

Synopsis

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.

This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its own natural resources - and why we must heed this warning.

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

About this title

About the Author

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of Time magazine's best non-fiction books of all time, Collapse, a No. 1 international bestseller, and The World Until Yesterday, among other books. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141997060
• ISBN 13: 9780141997063
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96