Footprints : in search of future fossils / David Farrier.
Footprints : in search of future fossils / David Farrier.
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Publisher
London : 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
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G 2020/3595
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Language
English
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Physical content
307 pages ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Traces of a haunted future --
The insatiable road --
Thin cities --
The bottle as hero --
The library of Babel --
Medusa's gaze --
The moment under the moment --
Where there should be something, there is nothing --
The little god --
Seeing the new world.
Publication information
Publisher
London : 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2020.
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Summary
The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future. He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the pla...
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Footprints : in search of future fossils / David Farrier.
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Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303)
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ebook version : 9780008286354
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©2020.
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G 2020/3595
Record Identifier
74VKa633AzLX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa633AzLX
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ISBN
0008286345 hardcover
9780008317874 (paperback)
0008317879 (paperback)
9780008286347 hardcover
DDC
304.2
MMS ID
991024341318802626
