The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its PeoplesOpen Road + Grove/Atlantic, 7 Jan 2015 - 434 halaman A comprehensive history of the continent, “full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America’s geology, climate, and paleontology” (The Washington Post Book World). Here, “the rock star of modern science” tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago to the present day (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel). Flannery describes the development of North America’s deciduous forests and other flora, and tracks the migrations of various animals to and from Europe, Asia, and South America, showing how plant and animal species have either adapted or become extinct. The story spans the massive changes wrought by the ice ages and the coming of the Native Americans. It continues right up to the present, covering the deforestation of the Northeast, the decimation of the buffalo, and other consequences of frontier settlement and the industrial development of the United States. This is science writing at its very best—both an engrossing narrative and a scholarly trove of information that “will forever change your perspective on the North American continent” (The New York Review of Books). |
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... IMPACT From garefowl to barn-door skate—a sorry tale of overeating. Merciful pilgrims and murderous microbes. A New World pox? First germ warfare. Apache get your gun. Three hundred and seventy treaties later. 24 AMERICA UNDER THE GUN A ...
... IMPACT From garefowl to barn-door skate—a sorry tale of overeating. Merciful pilgrims and murderous microbes. A New World pox? First germ warfare. Apache get your gun. Three hundred and seventy treaties later. 24 AMERICA UNDER THE GUN A ...
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... impact left me pondering Lincoln's Gettysburg address afresh and wondering whether 'a nation so conceived and dedicated, can long endure'. The great questions for me are these: what are the quintessential determinants of life in North ...
... impact left me pondering Lincoln's Gettysburg address afresh and wondering whether 'a nation so conceived and dedicated, can long endure'. The great questions for me are these: what are the quintessential determinants of life in North ...
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... impact site takes its name. When it hit, the rock released the equivalent of 100 million megatons of high explosive, about one hundred times the energy needed to create a global catastrophe, bringing the Mesozoic era—the age of ...
... impact site takes its name. When it hit, the rock released the equivalent of 100 million megatons of high explosive, about one hundred times the energy needed to create a global catastrophe, bringing the Mesozoic era—the age of ...
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... impact, for then life came close to being extinguished entirely, at least in North America. The sea into which the great lump of rock splashed down was about ten metres deep. I imagine it as being rather like the tropical seas of today ...
... impact, for then life came close to being extinguished entirely, at least in North America. The sea into which the great lump of rock splashed down was about ten metres deep. I imagine it as being rather like the tropical seas of today ...
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... impact must have been an incomprehensible sight . How long , I wonder , did the ocean continue to pour into it ? So big was the hole that one could not have seen from one side to the other , and so deep that no cliff on Earth today ...
... impact must have been an incomprehensible sight . How long , I wonder , did the ocean continue to pour into it ? So big was the hole that one could not have seen from one side to the other , and so deep that no cliff on Earth today ...
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