Part I. Where the arrows point. Your tour guide -- Future air -- Nature writing by the numbers -- Fire and water -- Losing everything -- Part II. Empty houses. Abandoned homes -- Safe places -- The road to paradise -- Cocktails with vultures -- Part III. Hurricane season. Travels with Orrin -- The birds of British petroleum -- After the storm -- The apocalyptic city -- Part IV. A new world. Reality show -- Oceans away -- Beneath the ice -- The green below -- A field guide to everything -- One last trip.

"The world is burning and the seas are rising. How do we navigate this new age of extremes? In A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World, David Gessner takes readers on an eye-opening tour of climate hotspots from the Gulf of Mexico to the burning American West to New York City to the fragile Outer Banks, where homes are being swallowed by the seas. He does so with his usual sense of humor, compassion, and a willingness to talk to anyone, providing an informative and sobering yet convivial guide for the age of fire, heat, wind, and water. Gessner approaches scientists and thinkers with a father's question: What will the world be like in 2064, when his daughter Hadley is his age now? What is the future of weather? The future of heat, storms, and fire?"--Amazon.