{"product_id":"in-the-shadow-of-the-doug-peacock-9781849351409","title":"In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: Global Warming, the Origins of the First Americans, and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene","description":"\"Doug Peacock, as ever, walks point for all of us. Not since Bill McKibben's \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e has a book of such import been presented to readers. Peacock's intelligence defies measure. His is a beautiful, feral heart, always robust, relentless with its love and desire for the human race to survive, and be sculpted by the coming hard times: to learn a magnificent humility, even so late in the game. Doug Peacock's mind is a marvel--there could be no more generous act than the writing of this book. It is a crowning achievement in a long career sent in service of beauty and the dignity of life.\"--Rick Bass, author of \u003ci\u003eWhy I Came West \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Lives of Rocks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur climate is changing fast. The future is uncertain, probably fiery, and likely terrifying. Yet shifting weather patterns have threatened humans before, right here in North America, when people first colonized this continent. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the huge glaciers of the Late Pleistocene. In this brand new landscape, humans managed to adapt to unfamiliar habitats and dangerous creatures in the midst of a wildly fluctuating climate. What was it like to live with huge pack-hunting lions, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and gigantic short-faced bears, to hunt now extinct horses, camels, and mammoth? Are there lessons for modern people lingering along this ancient trail?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shifting weather patterns of today--what we call \"global warming\"--will far exceed anything our ancestors previously faced. Doug Peacock's latest narrative explores the full circle of climate change, from the death of the megafauna to the depletion of the ozone, in a deeply personal story that takes readers from Peacock's participation in an archeological dig for early Clovis remains in Livingston, MT, near his home, to the death of the local whitebark pine trees in the same region, as a result of changes in the migration pattern of pine beetles with the warming seasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriter and adventurer \u003cb\u003eDoug Peacock \u003c\/b\u003ehas spent the past fifty years wandering the earth's wildest places, studying grizzly bears and advocating for the preservation of wilderness. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eGrizzly Years\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBaja\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWalking It Off \u003c\/i\u003eand co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Grizzly\u003c\/i\u003e. Peacock was named a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2011 Lannan Fellow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Oakland, California on March 24, 2015 a fire destroyed the AK Press warehouse along with several other businesses. Please consider visiting the AK Press website to learn more about the fundraiser to help them and their neighbors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Doug Peacock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1849351406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781849351409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e AK Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.31h x 5.30w x 0.54d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/27\/2013","brand":"Doug Peacock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991158620415,"sku":"9781849351409","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_71a1ad33-b42e-4882-8b00-87e9033f9ff0.jpg?v=1683308770","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-shadow-of-the-doug-peacock-9781849351409","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}