Footprints, David Farrier
Footprints, David Farrier
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Footprints
In Search of Future Fossils

Author: David Farrier

Narrator: Mike Grady

Unabridged: 9 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/21/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Ecology


Synopsis

What will the world look like in ten thousand years—or ten million? What kinds of stories will be told about us?

In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, the award-winning author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future. Modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, whether it is plastic polluting the oceans and nuclear waste sealed within the earth or the 30 million miles of roads spanning the planet. Our carbon could linger in the atmosphere for 100,000 years, and the remains of our cities will still exist millions of years from now as a layer in the rock. These future fossils have the potential to reveal much about how we lived in the twenty-first century.

Crossing the boundaries of literature, art, and science, Footprints invites us to think about how we will be remembered in the myths and stories of our distant descendants. Traveling from the Baltic Sea to the Great Barrier Reef, and from an ice-core laboratory in Tasmania to Shanghai, one of the world's biggest cities, Farrier describes a world that is changing rapidly, with consequences beyond the scope of human understanding. As much a message of hope as a warning, Footprints will not only alter how you think about the future; it will change how you see the world today.

About David Farrier

David Farrier teaches at the University of Edinburgh. In 2017, Footprints won the Royal Society of Literature's Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jorge

Este libro es el producto refinado que sale de la cabeza de un experto en literatura pero que al mismo tiempo entiende las complejas narraciones científicas sobre nuestro pasado, presente y futuro. ¡Y que buen producto sale de esta combinación única! Y es que la combinación de buena ciencia positiva......more

Mi primera impresión de este libro es que, lo disfruté demasiado por las posibilidades de reflexión que aporta. ¿Por qué? Porque fue un libro que, como pocas veces, entré a conocerlo sol por el título. La palabra 'Huella' me parece potente, porque habla de que algo o alguien dejó una impresión sobre......more

Goodreads review by J TC

O melhor livro que li em 2020, e um dos melhores de não-ficção de sempre. Escrita simples, profunda e culta. Só comparável a Nick Lane, Harold Morowitz ou Stephen Jay Gould. Um livro que nos atordoa e do qual necessitamos algum distanciamento para sobriamente se refletir. Para já ainda estou atordoad......more