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'Doug Peacock, as ever, walks point for all of us. Not since Bill McKibben's The End of Nature has a book of such import been presented to readers. Peacock's intelligence defies measure. His is a beautiful, feral heart, always robust, relentless with its love and desire for the human race to survive, and be sculpted by the coming hard times: to learn a magnificent humility, even so late in the game. Doug Peacock's mind is a marvelthere could be no more generous act than the writing of this book. It is a crowning achievement in a long career sent in service of beauty and the dignity of life.'Rick Bass, author of Why I Came West and The Lives of RocksOur climate is changing fast. The future is uncertain, probably fiery, and likely terrifying. Yet shifting weather patterns have threatened humans before, right here in North America, when people first colonized this continent. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the huge glaciers of the Late Pleistocene. In this brand new landscape, humans managed to adapt to unfamiliar habitats and dangerous creatures in the midst of a wildly fluctuating climate. What was it like to live with huge pack-hunting lions, saber-toot

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Author

Doug Peacock

Publisher

CounterPunch ; AK Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781849350631

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Science, Fiction

Rating

3.94 / 5 (68 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14