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Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780307908650
- Book Title
- Atlas of a Lost World : Travels in Ice Age America
- Item Length
- 9.4in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Nature, Science, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Ecology, Anthropology / General, North America, Paleontology
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 19 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates. In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ultimately thrived is a story that resonates from the Pleistocene to our modern era. The lower sea levels of the Ice Age exposed a vast land bridge between Asia and North America, but the land bridge was not the only way across. Different people arrived from different directions, and not all at the same time. The first explorers of the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. The continent they reached had no people but was inhabited by megafauna--mastodons, giant bears, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, five-hundred-pound panthers, enormous bison, and sloths that stood one story tall. The first people were hunters--Paleolithic spear points are still encrusted with the proteins of their prey--but they were wildly outnumbered and many would themselves have been prey to the much larger animals. Atlas of a Lost World chronicles the last millennia of the Ice Age, the violent oscillations and retreat of glaciers, the clues and traces that document the first encounters of early humans, and the animals whose presence governed the humans' chances for survival. A blend of science and personal narrative reveals how much has changed since the time of mammoth hunters, and how little. Across unexplored landscapes yet to be peopled, readers will see the Ice Age, and their own age, in a whole new light.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307908658
ISBN-13
9780307908650
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240306686
Product Key Features
Book Title
Atlas of a Lost World : Travels in Ice Age America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Ecology, Anthropology / General, North America, Paleontology
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Nature, Science, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E77.9.C55 2018
Reviews
"Whenever I read Craig Childs I feel as if I am in the presence a passionate tour guide to exotic places, rare artifacts, and ancient bones. Childs' Atlas of a Lost World is a transcontinental detective story about the arrival of humans in North America. About 20,000 years ago climates changed, humans spread across the globe, and a new era began for life in North America. Childs' first-hand encounters and vivid prose make his telling of these pivotal events read more like a thriller than a stale account of dusty artifacts." --Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish
Table of Content
Prologue xi 1. Land Bridge: Date Unknown 3 2. Inner Beringia: 25,000 Years Ago 15 3. House of Ice: 20,000 Years Ago 33 4. The Long Coast: 17,000 Years Ago 62 5. Playground of Giants: 45,000 to 15,000 Years Ago 101 6. Emergence: 16,000 to 14,000 Years Ago 112 7. A Dangerous Eden: 14,500 Years Ago 127 8. Cult of the Fluted Point: 13,500 Years Ago 166 9. The Last Mammoth Hunt: 13,000 to 12,000 Years Ago 176 10. American Babylon: 12,800 to 11,800 Years Ago 205 11. The Party at the Beginning of the World: 11,000 Years Ago 214 Epilogue 234 Acknowledgments 239 Notes 241 Selected Bibliography 245 Index 259
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2017-033037
Dewey Decimal
551.792097
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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