When Ice Threatened Living Things: The Pleistocene

by Jean F. Blashfield, Richard P. Jacobs

Imagine vast, flowing, 10,000-foot-thick ice sheets covering much of the land. See huge, elephant-like wooly mammoths roaming the tundra. Picture hunting monstrously large mammals alongside the first humans to travel to a new land. This is not an imaginary world. This is our continent, North America, less than 100,000 years ago! Journey into the distant past with this book and witness the earliest events in North America; when much of the continent was still covered in ice, the last of the giant beasts roamed the land, and human beings expanded into new territories to bring the dawn of their (and our) new world.

80 pages, Library Binding

First published December 7, 2005

About the author

See also: Jean Blashfield Black

Author of non-fiction works for children and young adults.

Reviews

[Alexandria K]

There is an error on page 11. It is a field note talking about Athabasca Glacier and crevasses. The note isn't finished. The last two sentences say, "If one of the climbers falls into a crevasses, the others can stop the fall by digging into the glacier with their ice axes. Then they can" -that's where that note ends, and it isn't resolved at any other point in the book.

[James Biser]

This is a very good nonfiction book about the Pleistocene time and the history of ice ages on Earth. It also discusses details about plants and animals that lived at different times all over the globe: