Wholesale Apocalypse : Lizzie Wade

How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures | Hardcover | A drought lasts for decades, a disease rips through a city, a civilization collapses. When we finally uncover the ruins, we ask: what happened? Apocalypse begins by traveling deep into the past, to when Homo sapiens went from being one of many to the only human species on the planet—the apocalypse of extinction that in some ways started it all. We’ll watch global sea levels rise with devastating speed, and natural disasters shape the landscape in new ways. You’ve heard of some of the apocalypses that come next: the end of Old Kingdom Egypt, the collapse of the Classic Maya, the Black Death.