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The Last Lost World Audiobook by Lydia V. Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne
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Title: The Last Lost World
Subtitle: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene
Author: Lydia V. Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne
Narrator: Walter Dixon
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-15-12
Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 28 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
An enlightening investigation of the Pleistocenes dual character as a geologic time - and as a cultural idea.
The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. Its a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctions - of woolly rhinos, mammoths, giant ground sloths, and not least early species of Homo. Its the world that created ours. But outside that environmental story there exists a parallel narrative that describes how our ideas about the Pleistocene have emerged. This story explains the place of the Pleistocene in shaping intellectual culture, and the role of a rapidly evolving culture in creating the idea of the Pleistocene and in establishing its dimensions. This second story addresses how the epoch, its Earth-shaping events, and its creatures, both those that survived and those that disappeared, helped kindle new sciences and a new origins story as the sciences split from the humanities as a way of looking at the past.
Ultimately, it is the story of how the dominant creature to emerge from the frost-and-fire world of the Pleistocene came to understand its place in the scheme of things. A remarkable synthesis of science and history, The Last Lost World describes the world that made our modern one.
Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Title: The Last Lost World
Subtitle: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene
Author: Lydia V. Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne
Narrator: Walter Dixon
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-15-12
Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 28 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
An enlightening investigation of the Pleistocenes dual character as a geologic time - and as a cultural idea.
The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. Its a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctions - of woolly rhinos, mammoths, giant ground sloths, and not least early species of Homo. Its the world that created ours. But outside that environmental story there exists a parallel narrative that describes how our ideas about the Pleistocene have emerged. This story explains the place of the Pleistocene in shaping intellectual culture, and the role of a rapidly evolving culture in creating the idea of the Pleistocene and in establishing its dimensions. This second story addresses how the epoch, its Earth-shaping events, and its creatures, both those that survived and those that disappeared, helped kindle new sciences and a new origins story as the sciences split from the humanities as a way of looking at the past.
Ultimately, it is the story of how the dominant creature to emerge from the frost-and-fire world of the Pleistocene came to understand its place in the scheme of things. A remarkable synthesis of science and history, The Last Lost World describes the world that made our modern one.
Contact me for any questions: [email protected]