BRIEF HISTORY OF EARTH (PB)

How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooked under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or rampaged across by fearsome monsters. Come to think of it, probably most or all of the above. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, this is an indispensable illustrated look at where we’ve been and where we’re going.