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Man: An Autobiography
The story of man through the ages, told briefly and simply as history, anthropology, and human drama.
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Like Sheep Rock, Man, an Autobiography is a concept book: what if Man, himself (in the generic, larger sense) were to tell his own story in a broad, collective way, part historical overview, part journey from animals in trees to people in cities?
The idea is interesting, and the volume starts well: “I, Man, having attained some maturity of years, feel a desire to write my autobiography.” But where to go from there? Stewart answers that question in scholarly fashion. He give equal time to very ear ...more
The idea is interesting, and the volume starts well: “I, Man, having attained some maturity of years, feel a desire to write my autobiography.” But where to go from there? Stewart answers that question in scholarly fashion. He give equal time to very ear ...more
An admixture of evolutionary biology and the kind of anthropological history that can be found in Jared Diamond's work, this slyly narrated book was years ahead of its time when it was published in 1946. It is dedicated to "Canis, best of friends."
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George Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his only science fiction novel
Earth Abides
(1949), a post-apocalyptic novel, for which he won the first International Fantasy Award in 1951. It was dramatized on radio's Escape and inspired Stephen King's
The Stand
.
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