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  • An Untold History
  • Auteur(s): Peter Frankopan
  • Narrateur(s): Peter Frankopan
  • Durée: 29 h et 11 min
  • 4,5 out of 5 stars (4 évaluations)

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The Earth Transformed

Auteur(s): Peter Frankopan
Narrateur(s): Peter Frankopan
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A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across time

Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of the Moche civilization in South America that came about because of the cyclical pressures of El Niño to volcanic eruptions in Iceland that affected Egypt and helped bring the Ottoman empire to its knees, climate change and its influences have always been with us.

Frankopan explains how the Vikings emerged thanks to catastrophic crop failure, why the roots of regime change in eleventh-century Baghdad lay in the collapse of cotton prices resulting from unusual climate patterns, and why the western expansion of the frontiers in North America was directly affected by solar flare activity in the eighteenth century. Again and again, Frankopan shows that when past empires have failed to act sustainably, they have been met with catastrophe. Blending brilliant historical writing and cutting-edge scientific research, The Earth Transformed will radically reframe the way we look at the world and our future.

*Includes a downloadable PDF of historic maps and global charts from the book, as well as the written acknowledgements

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Peter Frankopan (P)2023 Random House Audio
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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023: BBC NEWS, SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW EUROPEAN, GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, THE TIMES (LONDON), AND THE WEEK

"An essential epic that runs from the dawn of time to, oh, six o’clock yesterday." —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker

"Frankopan shows you how everything fits together...Vast, learned and timely work...The Earth Transformed is Sapiens for grown-ups....It holds lessons for a world grappling with rapid climate change caused by human industry." —Dan Jones, The Sunday Times

"Frankopan has brought all of this scholarly work together into a massive book that is comprehensive, well-informed, and fascinating. It has the intellectual weight and dramatic force of a tsunami....This is an endlessly fascinating book, an easy read on an important issue." —Gerard DeGroot, The Times (London)

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A chilling description of climate change from the beginning of the Earth.

Peter Frankopan’s special talent for shifting and filtering a viewpoint allows the reader(or listener) to assemble a perspective based on historical, anthropological and scientific information, usually delivered in statements with three important qualifiers.
Compelling.

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Detailed and scholarly

This is a very detailed account of human impacts on the climate, and climate impacts on human activity. It is far-reaching and thorough, and manages to avoid the western-centric view that a lot of popular history written in the west falls into. This inevitably means that coverage is patchy - China is well-served, whereas much of Africa is not, for example. I guess this is down to necessary editing for length... A minor quibble in the performance is the way the author (the author also narrates the book) pronounces 'nuclear' as 'nucular', as well as some other weirdnesses in pronunciation ('Ontario' to rhyme with 'Lothario', being one). The accompanying maps are a bit of an afterthoughts and don't really add much to the book.

All in all, a good listen if you are able to dedicate time to it - I wouldn't try and listen if you have multiple distractions, since the info is dense.

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