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.
- ISBN10 0712661735
- ISBN13 9780712661737
- Publish Date 7 November 1996 (first published 14 December 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Pimlico
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English