The World We Once Lived In
  • Published: 31 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9780141996936
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $12.99
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The World We Once Lived In

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In 21 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their words have endured, becoming the classics that define the environmental movement today.

From the Congo Basin to the traditions of the Kikuyu people, these lucid, incisive writings explore the sacred power of trees, and why humans lay waste to the forests that keep us alive.
  • Published: 31 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9780141996936
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $12.99
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About the author

Wangari Maathai

Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya, in 1940. She is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which, through networks of rural women, has planted over 30 million trees across Kenya since 1977. In 2002, she was elected to Kenya's Parliament in the first free elections in a generation, and served as Deputy Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 in recognition of her campaigns for democracy and environmental reform during the dictatorship of Daniel arap Moi. She died in 2011.

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