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Adventures in the Anthropocene

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784873615

  • Length: 480  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 29mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 330g

  • RRP: £10.99

Adventures in the Anthropocene

Explore the impact of humans on the planet in this beautiful new edition of Gaia Vincent’s powerful work.

In recent decades human beings have altered the planet beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.5 billion-year history. We have become a force on a par with earth-shattering asteroids and planet-cloaking volcanoes. As a result, our planet is said to be crossing a geological boundary – from the Holocene into the Anthropocene, or the Age of Man.

Gaia Vince quit her job to travel the world and to explore what all these changes really mean to our daily lives. She discovers the shocking ways in which we have reshaped our living planet and reveals the ingenious solutions we’ve evolved to engineer Earth for the future.

PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784873615

  • Length: 480  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 29mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 330g

  • RRP: £10.99

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About the Author

Gaia Vince

Gaia Vince is a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environment. She has held senior editorial posts at Nature and New Scientist, and her writing has featured in newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, The Times and Scientific American. She also writes and presents science programmes for radio and television. Her research takes her across the world: she has visited more than 60 countries, lived in three and is currently based in London. In 2015, she became the first woman to win the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize solo for her debut, Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made. She blogs at WanderingGaia.com and tweets at @WanderingGaia.

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