Atlas of a Lost World

De: Craig Childs

Narrado por: Craig Childs

From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America 20,000 years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates.

Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At some point in time, between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago, sea levels were low enough that a vast land bridge was exposed between Asia and North America. But the land bridge was not the only way across.

This book upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. The unpeopled continent they reached was inhabited by megafauna - mastodons, sloths, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, lions, bison, and bears. The First People were not docile - Paleolithic spear points are still encrusted with the protein of their prey - but they were wildly outnumbered, and many were prey to the much larger animals. This is a chronicle of the last millennia of the Ice Age, the gradual oscillations and retreat of glaciers, the clues and traces that document the first encounters of early humans, and the animals whose presence governed the humans' chances for survival.

©2018 Craig Childs (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Very interesting book

Not what I expected but found it thoroughly enjoyable. The way the subject is presented was quite refreshing.

Really 5 stars

A deeply connected audio experience. You can feel the author's experiences. Hear the sounds of hinting, smell the air and see the mammoths. Thanks!

An Ode to a Lost World

It's obvious from the first minutes of this work how much respect and even love the author has for the first settlers and explorers of what became known as the Americas. This makes it a mistake to approach Atlas of a Lost World as some kind of textbook about the settling of a new world. I enjoyed the work, once I accepted that it was really a paean to the people of this era and not a technical tome.

Interesting presentation of human history in the Americas.

I enjoyed the flow from the author’s personal experiences of hiking, kayaking or camping and into what early humans would have been seeing and experiencing in that area in an earlier time 10,000 - 20,000 years ago (or more).

Outstanding book!

The author very creatively weaves his modern outdoor experiences with what the paleo peoples of the Americas might have seen, heard, felt thousands of years ago. In addition, the author is very knowledgeable of Paleolithic tools and discovered archaeological sites. I was very impressed and thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book.

Loved this book!

Loved this book.,The author explores the history of man populating north America. The reader gets to travel with him to extreme locations, temperatures and experience some of what it was like to be paleo man. the future is not so bright as we head into the next era.

fascinating!

A blend of an overview of the oldest sites of humans in the New World (along with the traces found), the author's own experiences in the kinds of environments those peoples would have faced, and envisionings of the world as it would have been, it completely drew me in. I want to go there / then!

Informative and entertaining

Many books in different scientific genres bash those who disagree with the author. This book was refreshing to me because it didn't do that. As well as presenting lots of facts and data about a "Lost World," Childs provided a very entertaining narrative. I would listen to this again.

Fascinating

Although non-fiction, Craig Childs makes this trip to the Ice Age through the eyes of a modern scientist exciting in both content and narration.

Dirt Bags guide to anthropology

I’m very partial to a few subjects like history, ancient American cultures, and dirtbagging outdoor stories and this one checks them all off.