The World Without Us
Author: Alan Weisman
Translator: Han-Joong Lee
Publisher: Random House Korea
Hardcover | 428 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. If a virulent virus, or even the Rapture,
depopulated Earth overnight, how long before all trace of humankind
vanished? That's the provocative, and occasionally puckish, question
posed by Weisman (An Echo in My Blood) in this imaginative hybrid of
solid science reporting and morbid speculation. Days after our
disappearance, pumps keeping Manhattan's subways dry would fail, tunnels
would flood, soil under streets would sluice away and the foundations of
towering skyscrapers built to last for centuries would start to crumble.
At the other end of the chronological spectrum, anything made of bronze
might survive in recognizable form for millions of years, along with one
billion pounds of degraded but almost indestructible plastics
manufactured since the mid-20th century. Meanwhile, land freed from
mankind's environmentally poisonous footprint would quickly reconstitute
itself, as in Chernobyl, where animal life has returned after 1986's
deadly radiation leak, and in the demilitarized zone between North and
South Korea, a refuge since 1953 for the almost-extinct goral mountain
goat and Amur leopard. From a patch of primeval forest in Poland to
monumental underground villages in Turkey, Weisman's enthralling tour of
the world of tomorrow explores what little will remain of ancient times
while anticipating, often poetically, what a planet without us would be
like.
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