No One Can Live on Iron
Oliver Cussen, 7 May 2026
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last Five Hundred Years
by Sunil Amrith.
Penguin, 432 pp., £12.99, September 2025,978 0 14 199386 7 Show More
by Sunil Amrith.
Penguin, 432 pp., £12.99, September 2025,
“... extinction of species. In the Anthropocene we have to think ‘simultaneously on both registers’.Sunil Amrith’s The Burning Earth is in some ways a response to this challenge. Trained as a historian of South and South-East Asia, Amrith has spent the past decade integrating the environment into his research on ... ”
