Peter Frankopan is a British historian. He is a professor of global history at Worcester College, Oxford and the Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research.

In his Guardian review, Rohan Silva, notes that:

"The author  reveals how our lives have been shaped by environmental changes since the emergence of Homo sapiens in this sweeping, riveting study." 

With the final comment:

"On every one of its 700 pages, The Earth Transformed shows this worldview to be flawed: the sprawling span of human history reveals that our fate is indelibly bound up with the health of the natural world. As Frankopan pointedly concludes, the environment is “the very stage on which our existence plays out, shaping everything we do, who we are, where and how we live” – and if “the theatre closes or collapses, that marks the end for us all”.

Given the heartbreaking damage we’re doing to our planet today, us poor players would do well to listen."

You can read the full Guardian review here