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Product Description Brilliant , reminiscent of Lewis Hyde's The Gift in its reach and of Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time in its haunting evocation of human lives, offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history--from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to... read more

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This book is in Time Magazine's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2010. (authoritative list)

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  1. Jane Brox (Author)

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