The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
ISBN-10
0434008664
ISBN-13
9780434008667
Pages
404
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Authors
Timothy Flannery, Tim Fridtjof Flannery

Description

This title tells the story of North America over the last 65 million years, from the arrival of the largest asteroid ever to hit the Earth, through the evolution of North America's landscape, mountains, forests, prairies, volcanoes, and rivers, its climate and flora and fauna, and the Burgess shale, through the story of the Native Americans to the arrival of the European invaders.

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