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A review by savaging
The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses by Peter Brannen
4.0
This book shaped my sense of the world I move through. It helped me feel out the vastness of time behind and ahead, and reminded me that my species is so small. This is a bracing tonic.
I think that Brannen did a very good job of telling this deep history, and helping to share why it matters. I also felt myself recoiling a little bit because of his tone. It's a standard science journalism tone, which is clever and detached. Though I guess clever detachment can be useful when discussing so much death.
I think that Brannen did a very good job of telling this deep history, and helping to share why it matters. I also felt myself recoiling a little bit because of his tone. It's a standard science journalism tone, which is clever and detached. Though I guess clever detachment can be useful when discussing so much death.