When the Earth Was Green

Reviews

Praise for When the Earth was Green:

"Black’s creative writing style and vivid descriptions, paired with well-chosen scientific facts, transport readers to verdant, sometimes violent scenes from our planet’s past." —Booklist

"BLACK IS A POET OF PREHISTORY, narrating the final moments of a gooey mosquito or the accidental, tree-bound voyage of a monkey with the detail of someone who was there and saw it all, millions of years ago.... This is a book steeped with vegetal beauty, one that unfurls like a flower, blooming." —Sabrina Imbler, author of How Far the Light Reaches and staff writer at Defector

“BRILLIANT, BRIMMING WITH INSIGHT, and boundlessly entertaining. Black launches a grand tour of deep time, surveying the influence of plant life on animal evolution (and vice versa). It’s a 1.2 billion-year fandango, masterfully chronicled.” —Jason Roberts, author of Every Living Thing and A Sense of the World

“AN ESSENTIAL, EXTRAORDINARY STORY...Black shows us how the natural world has always been a splendid, entangled scrum of interactions and transactions." —Daniel Lewis, author of Twelve Trees, Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology, Huntington Library

"WHAT A BEAUTIFUL BOOK! I couldn’t put it down. Black has crafted a prose so vivid and precise that it feels more like watching a film. Through Black’s "vignettes," the reader is taken on a breathtaking exploration of life's interconnectedness." —Paco Calvo, author of Planta Sapiens


Praise for The Last Days of the Dinosaurs:

Winner 2023 AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Writing

"Black blends the intricacies of science with masterful storytelling for a cracking, enchanting read." —Newsweek

"This is top-drawer science writing." —Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Exquisitely written." —Booklist