Volume 48, Number 14 · September 20, 2001
The Age of Giants
By John Terborgh
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History ofNorth America and Its Peoples
by Tim Flannery
Atlantic Monthly Press, 404 pp., $27.50
Tim Flannery's book will forever change your perspective on the North American continent. The Eternal Frontier is history, but on a scale unimagined by most historians, for it begins with the scorching of our continent 65 million years ago and ends in the future. Flannery guides us on a sweeping odyssey through time, in which he synthesizes vast amounts of information from geology, paleontology, and human history. Crisis and recovery are the leitmotifs, as continents separate and collide with profound consequences for the earth's climate and its living things.
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