The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene - Softcover

Pyne, Lydia; Pyne, Stephen J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143123424 ISBN 13: 9780143123422

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2013

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Title: The Last Lost World( Ice Ages Human Origins and the Invention of the Pleistocene) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: LydiaV.Pyne <>Publisher: PenguinBooks

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Praise for THE LAST LOST WORLD

"Daughter-and-father historians of science pretty fully justify their profession in this brilliant explanation of the most recent geological epoch [...] For science mavens of a philosophical bent, this may be the book of the year, a font of knowledge and, what's more and better, intellectual exercise." -- Booklist

"Written in clear, supple prose, this title will interest historians, anthropologists, and anyone fascinated by the Ice Ages, human evolution, and the history of science and culture."
-- Library Journal

"Lasting from about 3 million to 10,000 years ago, the Pleistocene is both a geological epoch and an idea, write science historians Stephen Pyne (Voyager: Exploration, Space, and the Third Great Age of Discovery, 2011, etc.) and his daughter Lydia, who proceed to deliver a perceptive account of both."
-- Kirkus Reviews

"[Pyne] and his daughter dig right into the subject of the tumultuous, fascinating Pleistocene and do [...] a lively, bang-up job of it."
-- Open Letters Monthly

About the Author:

Lydia V. Pyne, a lecturer and visiting fellow at Drexel University, has done extensive fieldwork in archaeology and paleoanthropology. She lives in Philadelphia.
Stephen J. Pyne is the author of Voyager, Year of the Fires, The Ice, and How the Canyon Became Grand, among many other books. He lives in Glendale, Arizona.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0143123424
• ISBN 13: 9780143123422
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320