In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: A Renegade Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the First Americans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene
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Doug Peacock, as ever, walks point for all of us. Not since Bill
McKibben s The End of Nature has a book of such import been
presented to readers. Peacock s intelligence defies measure. His is
a beautiful, feral heart, always robust, relentless with its love
and desire for the human race to survive, and be sculpted by the
coming hard times: to learn a magnificent humility, even so late in
the game. Doug Peacock s mind is a marvelthere could be no more
generous act than the writing of this book. It is a crowning
achievement in a long career sent in service of beauty and the
dignity of life.Rick Bass, author of Why I Came West and The Lives
of RocksOur climate is changing fast. The future is uncertain,
probably fiery, and likely terrifying. Yet shifting weather
patterns have threatened humans before, right here in North
America, when people first colonized this continent. About 15,000
years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the huge glaciers of
the Late Pleistocene. In this brand new landscape, humans managed
to adapt to unfamiliar habitats and dangerous creatures in the
midst of a wildly fluctuating climate. What was it like to live
with huge pack-hunting lions, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and
gigantic short-faced bears, to hunt now extinct horses, camels, and
mammoth? Are there lessons for modern people lingering along this
ancient trail?The shifting weather patterns of todaywhat we call
global warmingwill far exceed anything our ancestors previously
faced. Doug Peacock's latest narrative explores the full circle of
climate change, from the death of the megafauna to the depletion of
the ozone, in a deeply personal story that takes readers from
Peacock's participation in an archeological dig for early Clovis
remains in Livingston, MT, near his home, to the death of the local
whitebark pine trees in the same region, as a result of changes in
the migration pattern of pine beetles with the warming
seasons.Writer and adventurer Doug Peacock has spent the past fifty
years wandering the earth's wildest places, studying grizzly bears
and advocating for the preservation of wilderness. He is the author
of Grizzly Years; Baja; and Walking It Off and co-author of The
Essential Grizzly. Peacock was named a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, and
a 2011 Lannan Fellow.In Oakland, California on March 24, 2015 a
fire destroyed the AK Press warehouse along with several other
businesses. Please consider visiting the AK Press website to learn
more about the fundraiser to help them and their neighbors.

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