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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Walking to Australia: 21st century excursions into humanity's greatest migration

Walking to Australia: 21st century excursions into humanity's greatest migration

Robbins, David

Paperback

Biographies GeneralTravel GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1912362503
ISBN13: 9781912362509
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Mar 28 2018
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

A traveller and an autistic boy explore the ancient routes and glimpse humanity's restless heart.


A journey that follows the general direction taken by anatomically modern humans who, some scientists conjecture, left the African nursery around 85000 years ago in search of survival, and whose descendants happened upon Australia 20000 years later. Along the way, they laid the genetic foundations for humanity's oldest civilisations, and ultimately inhabited every corner of the globe. The author travels this historic west-to-east route in the imagined company of his grandson, who serves as confidant and also as human archetype. What they find together is a tangle of new experience and emotional responses from which the links between ancient past and complex present gradually emerge. Here is a sweeping celebration of the human adventure.

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