"From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At some point in time, between twenty and forty thousand years...

The Cat in the Hat embarks on a tour of Pleistocene animals, introducing species ranging from mastodons and mammoths to woolly rhinos and saber-toothed cats.