Four Lost Cities
A Secret History of the Urban Age
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Annalee Newitz
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In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy's southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today.
Newitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers-slaves, women, immigrants, and manual laborers-who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia.
Four Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past, but, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities, it may also reveal something of our own fate.
©2021 Annalee Newitz (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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Worse, the author displays an inconsiderate tendency to write in the first person singular and to delve on personal issues irrelevant to the book’s topic, regarding for instance her estranged father.
The situation is made more aggravating in the audio version where the narrator does a remarkably poor job. She maintains a sing-song rhythm throughout that does not reflect any understanding of the text or even interest towards it. No research was done as to the pronunciation of foreign words so that, for instance, Phnom Penh is laughably said “Fnomh Penh” and a non credited voice comes in to say “École française d’études orientales”.
It would be difficult to find any rationale to recommend this offering to anyone.
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