An expanded edition of Dougal Dixon's classic illustrated work of speculative biology, published to celebrate the book's 40th anniversary. Features a new cover and more than 10 pages of never before seen sketches and production material. In 1981 St Martin's Press published After Man, the first edition of palaeontologist Dougal Dixon's vision of an 'alternative evolution': one without mankind. To some, this was seen as sacrilege, but Dixon himself only ever saw the decision to obliterate his own species from his vision as a practical one. Reflecting in the new foreword he has written exclusively for this edition, he notes, 'the book was about the natural forces of evolution, and man, with his big feet and his big hands, had too much of an influence, twisting the course of nature away from anything that can be predicted. With the removal of this interference I was able to let nature get back to work'. While some of the creatures rent from Dixon's imagination seem every bit as fantastical to a modern reader as they appeared to readers in the early '80s, others now don't seem so very far-fetched. From Dixon's foreword: 'There are now the walking bats of New Zealand - not quite as extreme and spectacular as 'The Nightstalker', but getting there. Fossils of even larger species of these bats are now being found in the same region. Then there are the snakes in Mexico that live in caves and snatch flying bats out of the air, just like 'The Anchorwhip'. 
 
 
 



        

            
            

                
Publisher
                
Breakdown Press (17 Feb. 2022)
            
            
            

                
Dimensions
                
28.2 x 1.9 x 24.2 cm
            
            
            

                
Language
                
English
            
            
            

                
Hardcover
                
144 pages
            
            
            

                
ISBN-10
                
1911081179
            
            
            

                
ISBN-13
                
978-1911081173
            
            
        

         





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