Gaia Vince: "I really wanted it to be an optimistic book, because I'm an optimist" The UK's premier prize for science books has been won by Gaia Vince, external - the first female writer to claim the award outright in its near 30-year history. Adventures in the Anthropocene is her record of the people and places she encountered on a huge global tour. The book details how humans are altering the pl
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