The Homelands Blog

Alan Weisman on South American speaking tour

Homelands’ co-founder and senior producer Alan Weisman is spending nearly a month in Colombia and Ecuador giving talks and interviews about his two most recent books, The World Without Us and Countdown.

Alan Weisman speaks to a packed house at Libri Mundi bookstore in Quito. (Photo by Bear Guerra, Homelands Productions)
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