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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
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I was excited to read about how climate shaped (and was shaped by) humanity. However, environmental factors were often drowned out by the sheer amount of historical context the author provided.
Make no mistake, this book is incredibly well-researched and its breadth is astounding, covering Earth’s history from the Big Bang to the present (200+ pages of endnotes that didn’t fit in this book’s 710 pages 🤯). But this was more like a world history book. It felt as if the author went off at too many tangents of historical/sociological/political facts & figures and then tried to link them all to climate change.
This was also one of Frankopan’s drier works. While I wished that The Silk Roads: A New History of the World was longer because it was so enjoyable and enriching to read, I found myself wishing that The Earth Transformed: An Untold History was much shorter.
Make no mistake, this book is incredibly well-researched and its breadth is astounding, covering Earth’s history from the Big Bang to the present (200+ pages of endnotes that didn’t fit in this book’s 710 pages 🤯). But this was more like a world history book. It felt as if the author went off at too many tangents of historical/sociological/political facts & figures and then tried to link them all to climate change.
This was also one of Frankopan’s drier works. While I wished that The Silk Roads: A New History of the World was longer because it was so enjoyable and enriching to read, I found myself wishing that The Earth Transformed: An Untold History was much shorter.
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