Author:
Pyne, Lydia.
Imprint:New York : Viking, c2012.
Descriptionxi, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Prologue. Mosel Bay, South Africa -- pt. 1. How the Pleistocene got it's ice. Rift ; Ice ; Story -- pt. 2. The great game. Footnotes to Plato ; Out of Africa ; Missing links ; New truths, heresies, superstitions ; The ancients and the moderns -- pt. 3.How the Pleistocene lost it's tale. The hominin who would be king ; The Anthropcene ; Epilogue : Rift redux.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.