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  • Beyond the Blue Horizon

    How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans

    by Brian Fagan ...
    In Beyond the Blue Horizon, bestselling science historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring mystery of the oceans, the planet's most forbidding terrain.This is not a tale of Columbus or Hudson, but of much earlier mariners. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to sail beyond the horizon, Fagan vividly explains how our mastery of the oceans has changed history, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Little Ice Age

    How Climate Made History, 1300-1850

    by Brian Fagan ...
    The groundbreaking history of how climate change transformed the world**“Fagan shows in this wonderful book how vulnerable human society is to climatic zigzags.”―**New ScientistThe Little Ice Age tells the fascinating story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history. Using sources ranging from the business records of medieval monasteries to modern ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Climate Chaos

    Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors

    by Brian Fagan, Nadia Durrani ...
    A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive.**“A rich survey of the past.” ―**NatureHuman-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty. From Ancient Egypt to Rome to the ... Read more

    Was $24.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • Hunting

    The Pursuit That Shaped Humanity

    by Brian Fagan ...
    From an acclaimed archaeological writer, a worldwide history of huntingHunting is one of humanity’s most ancient and universal activities. It has been embedded in every facet of our lives, shaping social bonds, power hierarchies, and interactions with the spirit world. This book tells the story of how hunting evolved from a means of survival practiced with clubs and spears to a genteel display ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Great Warming

    Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

    by Brian Fagan ...
    In this New York Times bestseller, Brian Fagan shows how climate transformed-and sometimes destroyed--human societies during the earth's last global warming phase.From the 10th to 15th centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide-a preview of today's global warming. In some areas, including much of Western Europe, longer summers brought bountiful ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Fishing

    How the Sea Fed Civilization

    by Brian Fagan ...
    An archaeologist examines humanity's last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization.In this history of fishing—not as sport but as sustenance—archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of civilization. It sustainably provided enough food to allow cities, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What We Did in Bed

    A Horizontal History

    by Brian Fagan, Nadia Durrani ...
    A social history that pulls back the covers on the most intimate piece of furniture in our lives: "Entertaining . . . will keep you awake long into the night." —Paul Chrystal, author of The History of SweetsLouis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed Britain from his during World War II. Travelers routinely used to bed down with complete strangers, and whole families ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Attacking Ocean

    The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels

    by Brian Fagan ...
    The past fifteen thousand years-the entire span of human civilization-have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when coastlines were more than seven hundred feet below modern levels. Over the next ten millennia, the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These rapid changes had little effect on those humans who experienced them, partly ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Fish on Friday

    Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World

    by Brian Fagan ...
    How fisherman beat Columbus to the New World, all fueled by the European appetite for fish.“Brian Fagan weaves a detective story of Friday fish-eating.”—Jared Diamond, New York Times bestselling author of Guns, Germs, and SteelWhat gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? It would be convenient to believe that Columbus and his ... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Elixir

    A History of Water and Humankind

    by Brian Fagan ...
    Elixir spans five millennia, from ancient Mesopotamia to the parched present of the Sun Belt. As Brian Fagan shows, every human society has been shaped by its relationship toour most essential resource. Fagan's sweeping narrative moves across the world, from ancient Greece and Rome, whose mighty aqueducts still supply modern cities, to China, where emperors marshaled armies of laborers in a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Rape of the Nile

    Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt, Revised and Updated

    by Brian Fagan ...
    Brian Fagan's classic account of the cavalcade of archaeologists, thieves, and sightseers who have flocked to the Nile Valley since ancient times.**“A sophisticated adventure story brimming with fascinating characters. This is the adventure of archaeology at its best.”—**Times Literary SupplementThe scandalous rape of Ancient Egypt is a historical vignette of greed, vanity, and dedicated ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Floods, Famines, and Emperors

    El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations

    by Brian Fagan ...
    The definitive account of how the world’s best-known climate event has made an indelible impact on history.**“Fagan makes high drama out of…the cracking of El Nino’s riddle.”—**Washington PostIn the last three decades, El Niño has brought extreme drought, floods, and heat waves to every continent in recent years. Such effects are not new: climatologists know the El Niño and other climate anomalies ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD