- History, Progress, Civilization, Environmental degradation
Palaeolithic hunters who learnt how to kill two mammoths instead of one had made progress. Those who learnt how to kill 200 by driving a whole herd over a cliff had made too much. Many of the great ruins that grace the deserts and jungles of the earth are monuments to progress traps, the headstones of civilisations which fell victim to their own success.
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Epic, spare, earnest and plot-driven.
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- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Ronald Wright
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 211
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf Publishers, House of Anansi Press, Canongate Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786715473
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