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Atlas of a Lost World

Autor Craig Childs
en Limba Engleză Hardback – mai 2018
FromtheauthorofApocalypticPlanetcomesavividtraveloguethroughprehistory,tracingthearrivaloftheFirstPeopleinNorthAmericaatleasttwentythousandyearsagoandtheartifactsthattelloftheirlivesandfates.Thisbookupendsournotionsofwherethesepeoplecamefromandwhotheywere.Howtheyarrived,persisted,andultimatelythrivedisastorythatresonatesfromthePleistocenetoourmodernera.DuringtheIceAge,sealevelsweremuchlower,exposingavastlandbridgebetweenAsiaandNorthAmerica.Butthelandbridgewasnottheonlywayacross.Differentpeoplearrivedfromdifferentdirections,andnotallatthesametime.
ThefirstexplorersoftheNewWorldwerefew,theirencampmentsfleeting.Thecontinenttheyreachedhadnopeople,andwasinhabitedbymegafauna--mastodons,giantbears,mammoths,saber-toothedcats,500-poundjaguar-lions,enormousbison,andslothsthatstoodonestorytall.TheFirstPeoplewerehunters--Paleolithicspearpointsarestillencrustedwiththeproteinsoftheirprey--buttheywerewildlyoutnumberedandmanywouldhavebeenpreytothemuchlargeranimals.
AtlasofaLostWorldchroniclesthelastmillenniaoftheIceAge,theviolentoscillationsandretreatofglaciers,thecluesandtracesthatdocumentthefirstencountersofearlyhumans,andtheanimalswhosepresencegovernedthehumans'chancesforsurvival.Ablendofscienceandpersonalnarrativerevealshowmuchhaschangedsincethetimeofmammothhunters,andhowlittle.Acrossunexploredlandscapesyettobepeopled,readerswillseetheIceAge,andtheirownage,inawholenewlight.
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ISBN-13: 9780307908650
ISBN-10: 0307908658
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: Black and white illustrations throughout
Dimensiuni: 161 x 241 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC