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An excellent book, Deep Time historicizes the important topics of deep time and the Anthropocene. With an extraordinary range of reference, from Buffon to J. G. Ballard, Noah Heringman shows the warp and woof of deep time through key texts and brings the past into present relevance. -Gillen D'Arcy Wood, author of Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and the Secrets of Its Ice Heringman offers a brilliant counterhistory of the geological imagination, showing how speculation about humanity's deep past, as recorded in ancient myths, monuments, and migrations, inspired a revolutionary new way of envisaging the scale of Earth history. As we seek forms of knowledge adequate to the Anthropocene proposal, Heringman invites us to reconsider those predisciplinary modes of inquiry, such as scientific romance and philosophical anthropology, that first sought to situate human antiquity in the tumult of planetary time. -Tobias Menely, author of Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics

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Noah Heringman is Curators' Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Missouri. He is the author of Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology and Sciences of Antiquity: Romantic Antiquarianism, Natural History, and Knowledge Work.

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