ISBN10: 0333901711, ISBN13: 9780333901717, [publisher: Macmillan Publishers Limited] Hardcover book has significant signs of wear and usage, such as spine creases etc. May have former owner's marks or be ex-library. However still fine as a reading/reference copy. Sold by a UK seller
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2000]

London : Macmillan, Date: 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xx, 636 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), 1 col. map, ports. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The itch to civilize : civilizations and civilization -- pt. 1. The waste land : desert, tundra, ice -- The helm of ice : ice worlds and tundra as human habitats -- The death of earth : adaptation and counteradaptation in deserts of sand -- pt. 2. Leaves of grass : uncultivable grasslands -- The sweepings of the wind : prairie and grassy savanna -- The highway of civilizations : the Eurasian steppe -- pt. 3. Under the rain : civilization in tropical lowlands and postglacial forests -- The wild woods : postglacial and temperate woodland -- Hearts of darkness : tropical lowlands -- pt. 4. The shining fields of mud : alluvial soils in drying climates -- The lone and level sands : misleading cases in the Near East -- Of shoes and rice : transcending environments of origin in China and India -- pt. 5. The mirrors of sky : civilizing highlands -- The gardens of the clouds : highland civilizations of the new world -- The climb to paradise : highland civilizations of the old world -- pt. 6. The water margins : civilizations shaped by the sea -- The allotments of the gods : small-island civilizations ...