A unique fusing of geology, anthropology, and storytelling discusses the history of America's landscape and its plant and animal life beginning in 1492, and examines the way of life of Native Americans across the continent.
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From Publishers Weekly
In a beautifully written meditation, Eco contributing editor MacLeish charts the ecological devastation and societal upheaval wrought by Spanish, French, English and Dutch colonizers of the New World. Drawing on interviews with ecologists, archeologists, prehistorians and anthropologists, as well as his own travels, he lyrically evokes the lush pre-Columbian Americas, where herds of caribou, mammoths and camels roamed in the late Pleistocene as glaciers melted. He also delineates a wide diversity of native cultures, such as the Calusa whale-hunters of the Pacific Northwest, the peoples who built huge burial mounds from Alabama to Ohio arund A.D. 1000, and the Chaco Canyon, N.M. housing-complex dwellers circa A.D. 500. MacLeish closes his highly personal essay with reflections on the destructive impact of contemporary Americans' high-consumption lifestyle. Illustrations.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
A storyteller with a penchant for history, MacLeish weaves a spellbinding tale about human life and environmental change in North America north of Mexico after about 15,000 B.C. Drawing on the work of archaeologists, paleobiologists, and the comments of Native Americans, he synthesizes what is known about the first Americans and their cultural evolution. In this personal odyssey, MacLeish addresses questions of human ecology, population growth, climate change, warfare, cultural morality, domestication origins, and a host of other issues of contemporary social and public policy. This unique and engaging essay will be of interest to the general reader.
William S. Dancey, Ohio State Univ., Columbus
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
William S. Dancey, Ohio State Univ., Columbus
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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