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The first Eden

Hardcover • 1987

The first Eden

By David Attenborough

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Five and a half million years ago, the waters of the Atlantic flooded across an isthmus joining Morocco and Spain and into a vast trench in the earth's crust. The resulting cataract plunged for a century or so over a cliff many miles long and fifty times higher than Niagara, until at last the basin was filled and the Mediterranean Sea had been born. No other sea, or indeed any large-scale feature on the face of the earth, could have had such a dramatic beginning. In "The First Eden", David Atten...Show more

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