Former Prescott College faculty member Alan Weisman will offer talks and a book signing on his acclaimed new book, The World Without Us, on September 25 and 26 at Prescott College.

Join Alan for an informal dialogue on Tuesday, September 25, at 2 p.m., and for a public presentation and book signing on Wednesday, September 26, at 7 p.m. Both events will be held in the College's Crossroads Community Center Meeting Room, located off the alley behind the College's main buildings at 220 Grove Ave. All are welcome to both events free of charge. For more information please contact Mary Lin at (928)-350-4503.

The World Without Us was released this summer to almost universally rave reviews from media ranging from Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and NPR, to Scientific American, Booklist, and Library Journal. The non-fiction book offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet as Weisman asks us to envision our Earth, without us.

In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe .

The World Without Us reveals how, just days after humans disappear, floods in New York's subways would start eroding the city's foundations, and how, as the world's cities crumble, asphalt jungles would give way to real ones. It describes the distinct ways that organic and chemically treated farms would revert to wild, how billions more birds would flourish, and how cockroaches in unheated cities would perish without us. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dali Lama, and paleontologists , Weisman illustrates what the planet might be like today, if not for us.

From places already devoid of humans (a last fragment of primeval European forest; the Korean DMZ; Chernobyl), Weisman reveals Earth's tremendous capacity for self-healing. As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman's narrative ultimately drives toward a radical but persuasive solution that needn't depend on our demise.

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DIRECTIONS TO PRESCOTT COLLEGE

Directions: From I-17 southbound: HWY 169 to right on 69. Follow 69 into Prescott. From I-17 northbound: HWY 69 into Prescott. HWY 69 becomes Gurley St. Continue past Courthouse Square and turn right on Grove Ave (a few lights down). Take a left at Western Ave and immediate right onto alley. The Crossroads Center is on your left. Parking is to the left and right off the alley.

NOTE TO MEDIA

Alan will be available for interviews on Tuesday afternoon after 3:00 p.m. High resolution images of the book cover and author are available upon request.

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