The Complete Ice Age: How Climate Change Shaped the World

by Mark Maslin, John F. Hoffecker, Brian M. Fagan, et al.

Book Overview

Written by three distinguished experts and overseen by a leading historian of climate change, Brian Fagan, The Complete Ice Age reveals how climate fluctuated wildly between severe glacial periods and warmer intervals, how long-extinct creatures once roamed the harsh landscapes, and how archaic and then modern humans adapted as they spread from tropical Africa and colonized the world.

This book covers a critical period in Earth's--and humanity's--history,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500051615
• ISBN13: 9780500051610
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.8" x 10.4"