Europe : a natural history
From internationally bestselling author and celebrated scientist Tim Flannery, a history of Europe unlike any before: an ecological account of the land itself and the forces shaping life on it.
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- ISBN: 9780802129161
- Physical Description 357 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2019.
- Copyright ©2018.
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| General Note: | "First published in Australia in 2018 by The Text Publishing Company." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Table of Contents
Europe : A Natural History
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | p. 1 | |
| I | The Tropical Archipelago | |
| 100-34 Million Years Ago | ||
| 1 | Destination Europe | p. 9 |
| 2 | Hateg's First Explorer | p. 14 |
| 3 | Dwarfish, Degenerate Dinosaurs | p. 23 |
| 4 | Islands at the Crossroads of the World | p. 27 |
| 5 | Origins and Ancient Europeans | p. 31 |
| 6 | The Midwife Toad | p. 36 |
| 7 | The Great Catastrophe | p. 43 |
| 8 | A Post-Apocalyptic World | p. 48 |
| 9 | New Dawn, New Invasions | p. 54 |
| 10 | Messel-a Window into the Past | p. 62 |
| 11 | The European Great Coral Reef | p. 67 |
| 12 | Tales from the Sewers of Paris | p. 71 |
| II | Becoming Continental | |
| 34-2.6 Million Years Ago | ||
| 13 | La Grande Coupure | p. 81 |
| 14 | Cats, Birds and Olms | p. 89 |
| 15 | The Marvellous Miocene | p. 94 |
| 16 | A Miocene Bestiary | p. 102 |
| 17 | Europe's Extraordinary Apes | p. 110 |
| 18 | The First Upright Apes | p. 114 |
| 19 | Lakes and Islands | p. 122 |
| 20 | The Messinian Salinity Crisis | p. 129 |
| 21 | The Pliocene-Time of Laocoon | p. 133 |
| III | Ice Ages | |
| 2.6 Million-38,000 Years Ago | ||
| 22 | The Pleistocene-Gateway to the Modern World | p. 145 |
| 23 | Hybrids-Europe, the Mother of Metissage | p. 154 |
| 24 | Return of the Upright Apes | p. 162 |
| 25 | Neanderthals | p. 168 |
| 26 | Bastards | p. 178 |
| 27 | The Cultural Revolution | p. 184 |
| 28 | Of Assemblages and Elephants | p. 191 |
| 29 | Other Temperate Giants | p. 198 |
| 30 | Ice Beasts | p. 204 |
| 31 | What the Ancestors Drew | p. 213 |
| IV | Human Europe | |
| 38,000 Years Ago to the Future | ||
| 32 | The Balance Tips | p. 225 |
| 33 | The Domesticators | p. 233 |
| 34 | From the Horse to Roman Failure | p. 239 |
| 35 | Emptying the Islands | p. 245 |
| 36 | The Cairn and the Storm | p. 251 |
| 37 | Survivors | p. 259 |
| 38 | Europe's Global Expansion | p. 267 |
| 39 | New Europeans | p. 272 |
| 40 | Animals of Empire | p. 277 |
| 41 | Europe's Bewolfing | p. 285 |
| 42 | Europe's Silent Spring | p. 293 |
| 43 | Rewilding | p. 298 |
| 44 | Re-creating Giants | p. 307 |
| Envoi | p. 315 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 317 | |
| Endnotes | p. 319 | |
| Index | p. 347 |
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