A review by plaidpladd
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America by Sarah Gilman, Craig Childs

5.0

Count megafauna as one of my interests now and forever! I really liked this book. It's partly the history of the earliest humans in North America and partly the author's travels to those same sites (mostly on foot or by kayak) and how they have changed in the last 15,000 years. The subject matter is really interesting, and the writing is very well-done. The parts about Florida made me vaguely homesick even though nothing described is pleasant ("Snakes dropping out of trees? Lol, yeah, you're gonna get snakes dropping out of trees"). Also I'm really pleased to know about the oldest-known human poop in North America.