Starting from the puzzle that coal-measure forests and ice-scratched boulders are found side by side, the meteorologist C. E. P. Brooks sets out the causes of climatic change and surveys the record as a whole. He describes conditions before the Quaternary Ice Age and the glacial history of Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia and the Americas, with an introduction by G. C. Simpson.
A pioneering survey of palaeoclimate that remains a fascinating read in an age of climate debate. Download the free EPUB.