EARTH TRANSFORMED: AN UNTOLD HISTORY (PB)

The renowned historian and author of The Silk Roads presents a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development - and demise - of civilisations across time, showing that the natural environment is a crucial, if not the defining, factor in global history - and not just of humankind. Taking us from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond, this magnificent and groundbreaking book forces us to reckon with humankind's continuing efforts to make sense of the natural world, providing lessons of profound importance as we face a precarious future of rapid global warming.