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Author Farrier, David, 1979- author.

Title Footprints : in search of future fossils / David Farrier.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  304.2 FAR    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  304.2 FAR    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  551 FARRIER    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  304.2 FARRIER    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  304.2 FARRIER    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  304.2 FARRIER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  304.2 FARRIER    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 307 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303).
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.
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 planet. This is his meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene, and an urgent search for fossils--industrial, chemical, geological--that humans are leaving behind. -- adapted from inside front dust jacket.
Subject Human ecology.
Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Anthropocene.
Human geography.
History, Modern.
Civilization, Modern.
Future, The.
NATURE / Ecology.
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues.
Civilization, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00863073
Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on. (OCoLC)fst01766583
Future, The. (OCoLC)fst01893847
Geology, Stratigraphic. (OCoLC)fst00940727
History, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00958367
Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
Human geography. (OCoLC)fst00963107
Nature -- Effect of human beings on. (OCoLC)fst01034564
ISBN 9780374157333 (hardcover)
0374157332 (hardcover)
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