- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Pimlico; New Ed edition (7 Nov 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0712661735
- ISBN-13: 978-0712661737
- Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.5 x 20 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 616,467 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A breathtakingly wide-angled history of the past five million years and a wonderful account of some of the most magnificent animals the world has ever seen. 'History at its most subversive, history that inspires and terrifies'. WASHINGTON POST
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This brilliant and ambitious book is an account of the events that made our world the place it is - geologically, climatically and ecologically - and a call for a new way of thinking about history. 'We learn', Tudge writes, 'to think only in desperately trivial twinklings of time. . . But this contracted view of time is not merely comic. It is dangerous. ' The proper sense of time, he argues, is one that allows us to appreciate the world and see what we are doing to it. If humankind is to survive, we must UNLEARN most of what made us good at dominating our environment up to now.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The definitive human history,
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This review is from: The Day Before Yesterday: Five Million Years of Human History (Paperback)
I always enjoy reading Tudge's books. This is no different. A wonderful adventure leading us from the beginning to the future of human kind, explaining the how, when and most especially the why.
Tudge has no qualms about admitting when information about certain things are patchy, and this I always admire in a writer. In addition, the book reads like a novel. So while it is history, much of it ancient ancient, it is fascinating. Always contains something which makes it completely relevant and interesting. Wonderful book, definitely give it a try!
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Fantastic thriller with last page twist that knocks you out.,
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This review is from: The Day Before Yesterday: Five Million Years of Human History (Paperback)
This book starts with you knowing very little. A man in a French cafe that knows little about himself suddenly gets attacked and so dragged into an international plot of unimaginable proportions. This involves a serial killer in London who removes the heads of his victims, the French president and his mistress, an professional hitman who has had his legs removed so that he can alter his height to suit his disguises and a secret German organisation. Loved it, couldn't put it down. Read this book, it's fantastic.
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