Apocalyptic Planet Field Guide to the Everending Earth
Language: English
Published by Pantheon, 2012
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: West Elk Books, Paonia, CO, U.S.A.West Elk Books
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Signed and inscribed by Craig Childs on title page, this hardcover first edition is sound and solid, with one small ink stain inside front board at gutter, in a good dustjacket that shows use and slight edgewear. An "adventurous tale" of our constantly changing earth. list 3rd when 2 sell.
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- Title
- Apocalyptic Planet Field Guide to the Everending Earth
- Author
- Childs, Craig
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0307379094
- ISBN 13
- 9780307379092
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Nature, Signed
The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes readers on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the speculation. Apocalyptic Planet is a combination of science and adventure that reveals the ways in which our world is constantly moving toward its end and how we can change our place within the cycles and episodes that rule it.
In this riveting narrative, Childs makes clear that ours is not a stable planet, that it is prone to sudden, violent natural disasters and extremes of climate. Alternate futures, many not so pretty, are constantly waiting in the wings. Childs refutes the idea of an apocalyptic end to the earth and finds clues to its more inevitable end in some of the most physically challenging places on the globe. He travels from the deserts of Chile, the driest in the world, to the genetic wasteland of central Iowa to the site of the drowned land bridge of the Bering Sea, uncovering the micro-cataclysms that predict the macro: forthcoming ice ages, super-volcanoes, and the conclusion of planetary life cycles. Childs delivers a sensual feast in his descriptions of the natural world and a bounty of unequivocal science that provides us with an unprecedented understanding of our future.
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About the Author
Craig Childs is a commentator for NPRs Morning Edition, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Mens Journal, Outside, The Sun, and Orion. Awards he has won include the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, the Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure, the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, and, for his body of work, the 2003 Spirit of the West Award.
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