9780008286378
Footprints

What will the world look like ten thousand or ten million years from now?  In Footprints, David Farrier explores what traces we will leave for the very deep future. From long-lived materials like plastic and nuclear waste, to the 50 million kilometres of roads spanning the planet, in modern times we have created numerous objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time. Through literature, art, and science, Footprints invites us to think about how we will be remembered in the myths, stories, and languages of our distant descendants. Travelling from the Baltic Sea to the Great Barrier Reef, and from an ice core laboratory in Tasmania to Shanghai, one of the world’s biggest cities, David Farrier tells a story of a world that is changing rapidly, and with long-term consequences. Footprints will not only alter how you think about the future, it will change how you see the world today.

  • Publisher: Fourth Estate
  • Publication date: 21/01/2021
  • ISBN: 9780008286378
  • Page extent: 320
  • Format: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 199 mm x 130 mm
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