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Title: Lost World : Rewriting Prehistory---How New Science Is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners by Tom Koppel ISBN: 0-7434-5357-3 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting but unnecessarily wordy
Comment: This book is well written and the ideas presented are well developed and clear. The descriptions of the excavations and the dating of artifacts are exciting. The only shortcoming which discouraged me from giving the book five stars is the fact that there's a lot of seemingly unnecessary and unrelated text that detracts from the main theme and flow of ideas in the book, e.g., the Baron of beef au jus incident; I fully agree with the Publishers Weekly's review on this issue. Otherwise, the book is informative in presenting an alternative view, and related evidence, as to the mechanics of how the New World was populated by humans.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lost World
Comment: Tom Koppel's new book, Lost World, is a wonderful narrative but packed with treasures of information as well. It is his personal journey with very talented and resourceful archaeologists and their colleagues. At the same time it is a credible account of their discoveries, and sometimes disappointments.
Setting the record right with respect to the western coastal settlement is only one of his accomplishments. Also he has performed a service that is beyond measure organizing into a single volume a myriad of important facts from diverse sources.
Having read many of the scientific and scholarly works relating to this subject, I must state that none has been as interesting, unbiased, forthright, unembellished and evenhanded as has Tom Koppel's book.
Louis C. Sheppard, Ph.D., D.I.C.
Rating: 5
Summary: solid info in detective-novel form
Comment: An avid, but often "challenged" reader of science, philosophy, and culture, I value clear writing above all things. Tom Koppel's explanations of radiocarbon dating, and of all the other methods of modern archaeology, were so step-by-step and lucid that even I, techno-dummy, understood them PAINLESSLY, without my customary cerebral seize-up.
On top of that, without losing any accuracy or "rigor," Koppel weaves the story like a mystery writer, seasoning necessarily slower passages with hints at just-around-the-bend revelations. And he recaps just enough to keep us straight with the story, not enough to annoy.
With documentary flair reminiscent of John McPhee's work, the guy gives the facts AND the color, always in historical perspective.
I learned and enjoyed, which is all I ask of a book.
Thus..... five stars.
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Title: The First Americans : In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery by James Adovasio, Jake Page ISBN: 037575704X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: In Search of Ice Age Americans by Douglas Preston, Kenneth B. Tankersley ISBN: 1586850210 Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publisher Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory by Thomas D. Dillehay ISBN: 0465076696 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 19 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Bones, Boats, and Bison: Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America by E. James Dixon ISBN: 0826321380 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen ISBN: 0393051404 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 08 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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