Europe : a Natural History.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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