Beneath the Sands: The Lost Worlds of Earth's Forgotten Deserts - Couverture souple

Reagan, Luke

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798233148071

Editeur : Alistair Ravenhurst, 2026

Synopsis

For thousands of years deserts have been seen as the empty edges of civilization-vast, silent landscapes where little of human history ever happened. But what if those deserts were not always barren? What if beneath the dunes lie the traces of rivers, lakes, grasslands, and the forgotten pathways of ancient people who once moved across landscapes that are now impossibly dry? Beneath the Sands explores the hidden climate history of the world's great deserts and reveals how dramatically the earth's environments have changed over time. Drawing on discoveries from climate science, archaeology, and environmental research, this book uncovers the story of greener Saharas, vanished rivers, migrating cultures, and the powerful climate cycles that reshaped the map of human civilization. For readers fascinated by ancient history, climate science, and the mysteries of lost landscapes, this is a journey into the forgotten worlds that once flourished where deserts stand today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Luke Reagan is a qualified historian with a lifelong devotion to the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica and the wider Americas, with particular studies in the Huastec, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Mixtec, and Aztec, or Mexica, worlds. His work is also shaped by an intense interest in Spanish history in the New World, especially the first encounters between Indigenous civilizations, explorers, chroniclers, soldiers, missionaries, and antiquarians. A lifelong collector of *National Geographic Magazine*, Reagan grew up with exploration, archaeology, and historical discovery as part of his intellectual environment, while his father and uncle were partly involved in the development of Lidar, the remote-sensing technology now used to reveal ancient landscapes, hidden settlements, and buried architectural systems.

Reagan's personal idols include Hiram Bingham, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and Percy Fawcett, explorers and antiquarians whose field accounts, drawings, controversies, ambitions, and obsessions helped bring ancient American sites into public imagination. His own interests follow that same line of inquiry, moving between ruins, archives, maps, expedition literature, colonial records, and the material remains of cultures too often reduced to footnotes. He comes from three generations of Reagans who fought for the rights of Native Americans in Texas and the wider region, giving his historical work a personal stake beyond scholarship alone. His mother's involvement in archaeoastronomy, especially at Chaco Canyon and Ancestral Puebloan sites, further shaped his interest in how ancient peoples read the sky, built sacred landscapes, and encoded cosmology into architecture.

Luke Reagan's work stands at the meeting point of historical research, exploration history, Indigenous cultural study, Spanish colonial history, archaeoastronomy, and the enduring mystery of ancient American civilizations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Alistair Ravenhurst
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798233148071
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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