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One of Heatmap's 18 Climate Books to Read in 2025. The award-winning environmental journalist's extraordinary, long-awaited portrait of hope and resilience as we face a fractured and uncertain future. In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of what it means to be a human on the front lines of our planet's existential crisis. His new book, Hope Dies Last, is a literary evocation of our current predicament and the core resolve of our species against the most precarious odds we have ever faced.. To write this book, Weisman traveled the globe, witnessing climate upheaval and other devastations, and meeting the people striving to mitigate and undo our past transgressions.
About the Author
Author of the critically acclaimed NewYork Times best seller The WorldWithout Us, Alan Weisman is anaward-winning journalist whose reportshave appeared in HarperÄôs, the NewYork Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly,Discover, and Orion, among others,and on National Public Radio. A formercontributing editor to the Los AngelesTimes Magazine, he is a senior radioproducer for Homelands Productionsand teaches international journalism atthe University of Arizona. He lives inwestern Massachusetts.
