HOPE DIES LAST

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 (Thomas Dunne Books, 2007) returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of the precarious state of our planet and what it means to be a human on the front lines of this existential crisis. His new book is a literary evocation of our current predicament and the core optimism of the human species against the worst odds we have ever faced. To write this book, Weisman has traveled the globe witnessing the devastation of climate change and meeting the people striving to mitigate and undo our past transgressions. He profiles the work of big thinkersengineers, scientists, economists, and psychiatristsas they devise innovative and wildly creative responses to an uncertain and frightening future. Alan Weisman is the author of several books, including the New York Times and international bestseller, The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne Books, 2007), which has been translated into 34 languages and was nominated for numerous awards. Weisman's articles have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and various other publications, and he has worked on all seven continents and reported from 58 countries. A co-founder of Homelands Productions, a nonprofit journalism collective, Weisman has received many radio awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Citation. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife, the sculptor Beckie Kravetz.