Buy Books, Subscriptions and Tickets

Author: Maathai, Wangari

East Africa

Published on 26 August 2021 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Green Ideas’ series.

Paperback | 80 pages
111 x 181 x 9 | 58g

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.

From the Congo Basin to the traditions of the Kikuyu people, the lucid, incisive writings in The World We Once Lived In explore the sacred power of trees, and why humans lay waste to the forests that keep us alive.

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.