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Atlas of a Lost World
- Narrated by: Craig Childs
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America 20,000 years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates.
Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At some point in time, between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago, sea levels were low enough that a vast land bridge was exposed between Asia and North America. But the land bridge was not the only way across.
This book upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. The unpeopled continent they reached was inhabited by megafauna - mastodons, sloths, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, lions, bison, and bears. The First People were not docile - Paleolithic spear points are still encrusted with the protein of their prey - but they were wildly outnumbered, and many were prey to the much larger animals. This is a chronicle of the last millennia of the Ice Age, the gradual 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.
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- Riikka Soininen
- 11-03-22
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I really enjoyed this listen, narrator kept moving from recent day to thousands and thousands years back like moving through invisible curtain, loved it.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-01-22
amazing
puts you right there in the footsteps of out ancestor's 10/15000 years ago. a master of words
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- Jonny P Good
- 13-01-22
Interesting Retelling of American preHistory
Craig Childs weaves together his present day travels effectively with his reimagining of ancient landscapes, animals and humans. He uses language very effectively and the overall effect is to bring different periods of preHistory to life with a feeling of mystery and wonder. Worth a listen for anyone interested in the early origins of American peoples.
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- Calum Morrison
- 16-11-21
A fantastic listen - beautifully written and read
Atlas of a Lost World is a fascinating story that Childs tells in an engaging and moving way, bringing life and depth to people, places and animals of long ago. Can't recommend highly enough.
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- tommy2bob
- 10-12-21
great prehistoric travelogue
really enjoyed this book & reading, would like an update based on recent discoveries and theories regarding Denisovians, younger dryas comet impact, pre Clovis finds
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