Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #882181 in Books
• Published on: 1996-11-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Customer Reviews

Fantastic thriller with last page twist that knocks you out.
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.