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Europe : a Natural History.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Flannery, Tim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newburyport : Grove Atlantic, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Other books by Tim Flannery
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I: The Tropical Archipelago 100-34 Million Years Ago
  • Chapter One: Destination Europe
  • Chapter Two: Hateg's First Explorer
  • Chapter Three: Dwarfish, Degenerate Dinosaurs
  • Chapter Four: Islands at the Crossroads of the World
  • Chapter Five: Origins and Ancient Europeans
  • Chapter Six: The Midwife Toad
  • Chapter Seven: The Great Catastrophe
  • Chapter Eight: A Post-Apocalyptic World
  • Chapter Nine: New Dawn, New Invasions
  • Chapter Ten: Messel-a Window into the Past
  • Chapter Eleven: The European Great Coral Reef
  • Chapter Twelve: Tales from the Sewers of Paris
  • II: Becoming Continental 34-2.6 Million Years Ago
  • Chapter Thirteen: La Grande Coupure
  • Chapter Fourteen: Cats, Birds and Olms
  • Chapter Fifteen: The Marvellous Miocene
  • Chapter Sixteen: A Miocene Bestiary
  • Chapter Seventeen: Europe's Extraordinary Apes
  • Chapter Eighteen: The First Upright Apes
  • Chapter Nineteen: Lakes and Islands
  • Chapter Twenty: The Messinian Salinity Crisis
  • Chapter Twenty-One: The Pliocene-Time of Laocoon
  • III: Ice Ages 2.6 Million-38,000 Years Ago
  • Chapter Twenty-Two: The Pleistocene-Gateway to the Modern World
  • Chapter Twenty-Three: Hybrids-Europe, the Mother of Metissage
  • Chapter Twenty-Four: Return of the Upright Apes
  • Chapter Twenty-Five: Neanderthals
  • Chapter Twenty-Six: Bastards
  • Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Cultural Revolution
  • Chapter Twenty-Eight: Of Assemblages and Elephants
  • Chapter Twenty-Nine: Other Temperate Giants
  • Chapter Thirty: Ice Beasts
  • Chapter Thirty-One: What the Ancestors Drew
  • IV: Human Europe 38,000 Years Ago to the Future
  • Chapter Thirty-Two: The Balance Tips
  • Chapter Thirty-Three: The Domesticators
  • Chapter Thirty-Four: From the Horse to Roman Failure
  • Chapter Thirty-Five: Emptying the Islands
  • Chapter Thirty-Six: The Calm and the Storm
  • Chapter Thirty-Seven: Survivors
  • Chapter Thirty-Eight: Europe's Global Expansion
  • Chapter Thirty-Nine: New Europeans
  • Chapter Forty: Animals of Empire
  • Chapter Forty-One: Europe's Bewolfing
  • Chapter Forty-Two: Europe's Silent Spring
  • Chapter Forty-Three: Rewilding
  • Chapter Forty-Four: Re-creating Giants
  • Photo Insert
  • Envoi
  • Acknowledgments
  • Endnotes
  • Index
  • Back Cover