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Dr Patrick Roberts is W2 Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany. He completed his PhD at Oxford University, has worked in jungles across the world and has received numerous prestigious awards, including a European Research Council Starter Grant (1.5 Million). He has written or co-authored 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and his work has featured on the BBC, Channel 4 and in The Times, among others. Author of the academic book Tropical Forest Prehistory, History and Modernity, this is his first for a trade audience.

Jungle How Tropical Forests Shaped World History

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 7 January 2021
      ISBN-13 9780241472743
      978-0241472743
      ISBN-10 0241472741
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      Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Forests and woodland

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Dr Patrick Roberts is W2 Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany. He completed his PhD at Oxford University, has worked in jungles across the world and has received numerous prestigious awards, including a European Research Council Starter Grant (1.5 Million). He has written or co-authored 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and his work has featured on the BBC, Channel 4 and in The Times, among others. Author of the academic book Tropical Forest Prehistory, History and Modernity, this is his first for a trade audience.

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