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Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide To The Ever-Ending Earth (2012)

by Craig Childs(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0307379094 (ISBN13: 9780307379092)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Pantheon Books

review 1: Childs writes in a poetic cadence, often crafting impressionistic passages about the landscape and his (or our) experience of it. But his accounts are so wide ranging and touch such amazing landscapes: Greenland, Patagonia, Nepal, Hawaii, Sonora, and much more. I am amazed about how much he packed into the book. Meanwhile, he manages to introduce us to interesting characters along the way, in the form of his friends and field partners.
review 2: Exactly what it sounds like -- the author uses each chapter as a cautionary explanation of what is happening to the earth as it heaves and changes. Childs doesn't point fingers at anything or one just an easy telling of what he found as he explored the different regions of the earth with experts. Stuff is happening ... morebut it is not necessarily new stuff -- just new to humans. This book is not a blow through one. If you pick it up you'll need time to read and think about the information that it gives. less

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