Earth Transformed - Illustrated Edition

From multi-award-winning author Peter Frankopan now comes a dazzling illustrated edition of his bestselling book, The Earth Transformed: An Untold History.

Featuring bold and captivating artwork from Romolo D'Hipolito, The Earth Transformed: Illustrated Edition guides readers on an extraordinary journey through the history of our world – like nothing they've ever seen before! Illuminating the way in which our planet’s changing natural environment has shaped all aspects of our planet's story, this masterful retelling captures the impressive scale of the Frankopan’s original bestseller while ensuring this new, illustrated edition is accessible to all readers. Starting at the Big Bang through volcanic eruptions, meteor strikes, changing oceans and freak weather events to bring us up to the present day, this book explains how Earth’s climate is constantly changing and what it can teach us as we face the challenges of global warming today.

With over 50,000 copies of the original book sold, this is a must-read for those interested in both how our miraculous world came to be, and what we can do to ensure its incredible future.

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He is also UNESCO Professor of Silk Roads Studies at King’s College, Cambridge. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015) was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller and remained in the top 10 bestsellers for nine months after publication and was named one of the ‘Books of the Decade’ 2010-2020 by the Sunday Times. The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World (2018) won the Human Sciences prize of the Carical Foundation in 2019. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (2023) was named The Times 2023 History Book of the Year. It was also a Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Independent, New Yorker and Le Point Book of the Year.

Rômolo D’Hipólito is an artist born in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, with a bachelor's degree in Design. His non-fiction books with Flying Eye have been published in over 10 languages around the world, and his numerous industry awards include a special mention at the Golden Pinwheel Competition in 2019.