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Prehistoric America : a journey through the Ice Age and beyond
- Title
- Prehistoric America : a journey through the Ice Age and beyond / Miles Barton [and others] ; foreword by D. Bruce Means.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002], ©2002.
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- Description
- 192 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 29 cm
- Summary
- "From the icy Arctic vastness to the steamy tropical swamps of Florida, people came upon a teeming variety of animals in North America after the Ice Age. The book travels the continent region by region, introducing fascinating and bizarre beasts including ground sloths, glyptodonts, mastodons, mammoths, saber-toothed and scimitar-toothed cats, and the short-faced bear.
- Alongside these now-extinct animals were lions, cheetahs, zebras, and camels - animals that have long since disappeared from their North American homes - as well as species still seen today, such as caribou, grizzlies, eagles, salmon, bison, coyotes, prairie dogs, condors, alligators, and jaguars.".
- "A wealth of fossil evidence informs the stunning computer-generated panoramas that fill the pages of the volume. Bones of the ancient beasts again have flesh and fur, unfamiliar animals again roam the landscapes, and the world of prehistoric North America comes startlingly to life."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Wild New World (Television program)
- Subjects
- Note
- "This book is published to accompany the television series, Wild New World, first broadcast on BBC2 in 2002 and in the United States on the Discovery Channel in 2003"--Leaf facing t.p.
- Includes index.
- Contents
- 1. Beringia / Miles Barton -- 2. The Northwest Coast / Stephen Dunleavy -- 3. The Great Plains / Ian Gray -- 4. The Canyon Lands / Nigel Bean -- 5. Florida: Ice-age Oasis / Adam White -- 6. Mammoths To Manhattan / Stephen Dunleavy.
- ISBN
- 0300098197 :
- LCCN
- 2002109289
- OCLC
- ocm51765734
- SCSB-4346917
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries