Jungle

How Tropical Forests Shaped the World - and Us

By: Patrick Roberts

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Hardcover | 1 July 2021 | Edition Number 1

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432 Pages

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24.1 x 16.5 x 4.1

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'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world that shows the vital importance of tropical forests to life on Earth' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees

Jungle is a new and ambitious history of the world, telling the remarkable story of the world's tropical forests from the arrival of the first plants millions of years ago to the role of tropical forests in the evolution of the world's atmosphere, the dinosaurs, the first mammals and even our own species and ancestors. Highlighting provocative new evidence garnered from cutting-edge research, Dr Roberts shows, for example, that our view of humans as 'savannah specialists' is wildly wrong, and that the 'Anthropocene' began not with the Industrial Revolution, but potentially as early as 6,000 years ago in the tropics. We see that the relationship between humankind and 'jungles' is deep-rooted, that we are all connected to their destruction, and that we must all act to save them. Urgent, clear-sighted and original, Jungle challenges the way we think about the world - and ourselves.

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