APOCALYPTIC PLANET: FIELD GUIDE TO THE EVER-ENDING EARTH
Book ID/图书代码： 00500012B52739
English Summary/英文概要： An exhilarating, surprising exploration of our globe: a combination of science and adventure that reveals the ways in which our world is constantly moving toward its end and of how we can change our place within the cycles that rule the planet.
In a riveting narrative, Craig Childs makes clear the fact that ours is not a stable planet; that it is prone to sudden, violent natural disasters and extremes of climate. He refutes the idea of an apocalyptic end to earth, and finds clues to the more inevitable end in some of the most physically challenging places on earth. He travels from the deserts of Chile, the driest in the world, to the genetic wasteland of central Iowa, to the site of the drowned land bridge of the Bering Sea, uncovering the micro-cataclysms that predict the macro: forthcoming ice ages, super volcanoes, and the conclusion of planetary life cycles. Childs delivers a sensual feast in his descriptions of the natural world, and a bounty of unequivocal science that provides us with an unprecedented understanding of our future.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一次令人兴奋且充满惊奇的全球探索之旅：科学和冒险的结合反映出我们的世界正在以怎样的方式不断地移向它的终点，我们该如何在控制我们星球的周期内改变我们的处境。 克雷格.查尔兹（Craig Childs）以一种饶有趣味的叙事口吻，澄清了这样一个事实：我们的星球是不稳定的，经常发生突然又暴力的自然灾害和极端气候。他反驳宗教启示录上关于地球毁灭的观点，并在地球上一些最挑战人类身体的地方找到了更多终结地球的不可避免的线索。
他从世界最干燥的智利沙漠到Iowa中部遗传的荒原，游历到白令海淹没的陆地桥遗址，解开了预示着即将到来的冰季，超级火山和星球生命周期的缔结这些宏大的事件的微小灾变。Childs描述的自然世界为我们烹出了一份感官上大餐；大量的绝对科学又为我们提供了史无前例的未来见解。（XMM）
Awards/获奖情况：Some more good news regarding APOCALYPTIC PLANET which I’m delighted to pass on: another very positive advance review from Kirkus today, as follows - The Earth has always been prone to violent changes, natural disasters, mass extinctions and climate extremes. Global warming will make matters worse, but this lyrical natural history is both a polemic and a preview. Science writer and NPR commentator Childs (Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession, 2010, etc.) aims to experience the apocalypse firsthand. Childs walked the ergs (wind-swept sand with no vegetation) of Mexico and the rainless plains of northern Chile. He visited the frigid Bering Sea, only 100 feet deep and once a vast, ice-free plain, listening to native Inuits complain of rising seas. Trekking the Andes, he observed rubble left by the retreat of the greatest nonpolar glaciers before visiting Greenland, where researchers are recording travails from a far more massive ice sheet. He turned up mass extinction in prosperous Iowa, formerly home to thousands of High Plains species, today a monoculture of genetically modified cornfields in soil that now consists mostly of high-yield petroleum products harboring a dozen other life forms barely surviving in the chemical soup. Civilizations collapse when infrastructure fails. Childs recounts the Hohokam, whose culture and complex irrigation infrastructure withered centuries before settlers arrived at his native Phoenix. American infrastructure (water delivery, sewers, bridges, dams) is crumbling; 240,000 U.S. water mains burst every year. Childs pauses regularly to allow scientists to explain what’s happening and deliver gloomy forecasts, but he eschews the traditional how-to-fix-it conclusion.
Gripping descriptions of deteriorating ecosystems that may soon require less travel and perhaps none at all for readers to experience.
About the Author/作者介绍： 克雷格.查尔兹（Craig Childs）是一位美国亚利桑那州的土著人，现在居住在科罗拉多州西部。他是2009年度Rowell冒险艺术奖的赢家，他一边游历各地，一边从事自然科学，人类学和地球荒野旅行这些方面的写作。他参加国家公共电台早间版的评论工作，他的作品已经登在了《纽约时报》，《洛杉矶时报》，《男性杂志》，《外界》，《太阳报Sun》和Orion上。主题从先哥伦布人类学排列到美国边境问题和西藏和南美巴塔哥尼亚地区的最后一批自由流动的河流。 Craig Childs is an Arizona native now living in western Colorado. Winner of the 2009 Rowell Art of Adventure Award, he is part deep traveler, part writer who focuses on natural sciences, archaeology, and journeys into the global wilderness. He is a commentator for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Journal, Outside, the Sun, and Orion. Subjects range from pre-Columbian archaeology to US border issues to the last free-flowing rivers of Tibet and Patagonia.
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