The Next Great Migration
Book description
Finalist for the 2021 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
A Library Journal Best Science & Technology Book of 2020
A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2020
2020 Goodreads Choice Award Semifinalist in Science & Technology
A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Next Great Migration as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Drawing on a wide range of research, Shah counteracts the common assumption that contemporary human and nonhuman migrations represent an unprecedented global crisis.
She reframes migration as a biological and cultural necessity that has been a crucial part of human history and shows how it has been fueled by such factors as economic inequality, politics, nationalism, colonialism, etc. I learned so much from this meticulously researched, yet highly readable book.
I love how it asks readers to consider migration and its history from multiple perspectives and that it can help us think and prepare for an increase of migration due…
From Glenda's list on migration, migrant lives, and how they shape our common world.
If you love The Next Great Migration...
I Am Taurus
The constellation we know as Taurus goes all the way back to cave paintings of aurochs at Lascaux. This book traces the story of the bull in the sky, a journey through the history of what has become known as the sacred bull.
Each of the sections is written from…
Want books like The Next Great Migration?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The Next Great Migration.
Share your top 3 reads of 2024!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,593
readers submitted
so far, will you?
