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Title: After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America by E.C. Pielou ISBN: 0-226-66812-6 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book I've read in the last 20 years
Comment: Shazam!! This book may be the most fascinating work I have ever read. It opened my eyes to so many new things, such as a map of glaciated Quebec 7,000 years ago, vanished proglacial lakes as big as Alberta and 800 miles long, the overkill explanation for the the disappearance of North American megafauna, the whys of the Channeled Scablands, etc., etc. It has extraordinary passages on the changing of the courses of major rivers, the return of biota to formerly glaciated regions, the spread of fish species on the North American continent, and contains very realistic pencil drawings of various ice age animals, especially the short-faced bear. The maps alone make the book worth a five star rating. I had seen articles and read books on many of these topics previously, but Professor's Pielou's easily readable, expressive prose integrates all of these concepts as a seamless whole in a peerless manner. If you are at all interested in the Ice Ages, caution: this book can easily make you into a passionate devotee. A musthave-mustread-mustkeep at the head of the bookshelf treatise. A pity five stars is the maximum rating. I'd have gone higher.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book on the end of the ice ages
Comment: I am not a geologist, just a glacier climber. I found this book well writing and detailed, but not beyond a laypersons grasp. Pielou does an excellent job in picturing North American during and after the iceage. The book includes information on flora and animals, as well as origins of North America's indigenous people. It made me view areas I hike and climb in a whole new light! I could not put this book down and it is one of the rare books that I missed reading when I finished!
Rating: 5
Summary: Very well written account of the "history" of North America
Comment: Focuses on the causes of the glacial cycle and its impact. Has lots of interesting maps.
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Title: The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan ISBN: 0465022723 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 24 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared by Peter Douglas Ward ISBN: 0387985727 Publisher: Copernicus Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future by Richard B. Alley ISBN: 0691102961 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Before the Indians by Bjorn Kurten, Margaret Lambert Newman, Hubert Pepper ISBN: 0231065833 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Ice Age Mammals of North America by Ian Lange, illustrator Dorothy S. Norton ISBN: 0878424032 Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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