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Apocalyptic Planet

Field Guide to the Everending Earth

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Apocalyptic Planet

De: Craig Childs
Narrado por: Craig Childs
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The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes listeners on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the speculation. Apocalyptic Planet is a combination of science and adventure that reveals the ways in which our world is constantly moving toward its end and how we can change our place within the cycles and episodes that rule it.

In this riveting narrative, Childs makes clear that ours is not a stable planet, that it is prone to sudden, violent natural disasters and extremes of climate. Alternate futures, many not so pretty, are constantly waiting in the wings. Childs refutes the idea of an apocalyptic end to the earth and finds clues to its more inevitable end in some of the most physically challenging places on the globe. 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.

©2012 Craig Childs (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Aire libre y Naturaleza Ambiente Catástrofes Naturales Ciencia Ciencias Geológicas Naturaleza y Ecología Para reflexionar Apocalyptic Earth Childs
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Poetic Exploration • Exhilarating Ride • Lush Prose • Captivating Adventures • Eye-opening Perspective
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Another captivating book by Craig Childs

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An almost poetic exploration of nine locations on earth that may act as a preview of one of the many ways the world (as we know it and like it) could end. Childs blends travelogue, scientific explanation, scientific prediction, and prose that is lush and humorous and introspective and sad in turns. His subtitle is apt, in calling it the ever-ending earth. Among many luminaries, he relays discussions with the eminent E. O. Wilson, who makes the point that you could (inadvisable as it may be) take the biosphere all the way down to just microbes and life would not be ended. The book is an exhilarating and eye-opening ride, Childs has visited the veritable ends of the earth and it is truly a treat to join him from the safety and climate-controlled comfort of my reading chair.

Stunning

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This audiobook transports readers to extreme, otherworldly environments on Earth that most folks don't get to experience firsthand. It puts into perspective the fascinating history and future of the planet, which will continue with or without us.

Well written, well narrated, and wonderful

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Listening to this may be difficult for anyone who’s ever suffered through a long monotonous poetry reading. Craig Childs goes for “literature” and overshoots. It is written like a prose poem, distractingly wordy. It’s also written in first person, present tense, which, at least in nonfiction, never fails to sound pretentious – this is not an exception.

A Bit Too Rich...

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Anyone who has ever read Craig Childs writings will love this audiobook. The work itself is a wonder of global exploration that reads like science fiction. Maybe even to much so. That this world that we know has died and been reborn many times the story provides cold comfort. At points during these stories my feelings alternated between a profound depression and a deep sense of relief. Yes, this planet will go on beyond the injury done to it by we humans but the probable extinction of my own kind or at least the civilization that we have built weighed heavy on my soul.

Childs prose reaches the level of poetry often in the stories presented. Word pictures painted by the mind of an artist are sometimes lyrical and at other times horrifying but always edifying. His reading his own work was superb. I hope he will consider putting his other works into audio for those of us that love to hear the spoken word.

I recommend this audiobook.

Stunning performance by Author/Reader

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Not scientist, but writer of spells, Childs' incantations conjur bite-sized infinities... eternity in pill form.

You will not want to pause this book.

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I can’t get enough of his beautiful writing style and topics of utmost importance for our civilization.

Another master piece from Childs

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What did you like best about Apocalyptic Planet? What did you like least?

Good research, good effort by the author

If you’ve listened to books by Craig Childs before, how does this one compare?

NA

What aspect of Craig Childs’s performance would you have changed?

The editing was odd. I heard him pausing, taking breaths, etc. That stuff should have been edited out. It's like they rushed to get this published instead of doing a few extra takes and editing together the best reading.

Any additional comments?

Not my favorite. Could have been condensed or could have included more research, but then it wouldn't have been an adventure story.

Alright. Didn't like the narration/editing

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Craig Childs write a field guide to parts of the planet I didn’t know Thank you for this. Probably the most important book I’ve read since Autobiography of a Yogi. Thank you so much!

Important news from the plant!

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, depending on the friend.

What other book might you compare Apocalyptic Planet to and why?

Nothing I have ever read, very strange but interesting combination of investigative journalism, environmental doomsday, and travel-log.

Which character – as performed by Craig Childs – was your favorite?

N/A

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No.

Any additional comments?

I found this book very interesting and can imagine this being a favorite of some people. It is an unusual combination that mostly worked for me. I am of a scientific bend and found this light in that department, little on the fear-mongering side for my taste but only just. I would recommend giving it a try for the novelty if nothing else and you may love it.

Travel-log of the maybe apocalypses

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