Ronald Wright

A Short History Of Progress (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Have we learnt the lessons of the past - or will we be next? Many of the great ruins that grace the deserts and jungles of the earth are monuments to civilisations which fell victim to their own success: from Easter Island's monolithic wilderness to the perpetual silence of the Mayan ruins and ultimately to today's melting ice caps
and growing ozone hole, the cycle has continually repeated itself across the years.

"Unfailingly provocative and scarily persuasive." Scotsman

"The author sifts the findings of archaeology and anthropology with thoughtful grace to build a potent argument." Guardian

"I was thoroughly shaken up by Ronald Wright's A Short History of Progress, a brilliant analysis of everything humanity has done to ruin itself down the ages." Jan Morris, Independent

"Wise, timely and brilliant." Globe and Mail

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847676610
• Artikelnr.: 38355992

Autorenporträt

RONALD WRIGHT is a prize-winning novelist, historian, and essayist, published in ten languages. His nonfiction includes the number-one bestseller Stolen Continents, winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by the Independent and the Sunday Times. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the Sunday Times, and the New York Times.