Clive Ponting's bestselling study of man's despoliation of the planet - now completely revised and updated.
Clive Ponting was until recently Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Wales, Swansea. Available in Pimlico are his most recent books- A New Green History Of The World- The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations; Gunpowder- From the Alchemists of China to the Battlefields of Europe; The Pimlico History of the Twentieth Century; World History- A New Perspective; Thirteen Days- The Road to the First World War; and The Crimean War. He recently took early retirement and now lives on a small Greek island where he is creating a Mediterranean garden and cultivating olives.
If there is a single book on the subject to engage the enthusiast,
silence the cynic and enlighten the ignoramus, this is it
*Observer*
Ponting's re-evaluation of history is an important antidote to
mental troglodytism. It also makes a welcome change from the
scatter-gun apocalypse-mongering which has become standard fare in
green literature. With luck and foresight, and more books like
this, we may yet learn our lesson
*Independent on Sunday*
Pioneering...a book good enough to rival the best American products
in the field... Clive Ponting has embraced a daunting task with
commendable success
*Times Literary Supplement*
An ambitious and thought-provoking attempt to rewrite history from
an ecological standpoint
*Independent*
Large, ambitious and often enthralling, it is a successful attempt
to look at the unfolding of world history from an entirely new
perspective
*Literary Review*
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