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Title: The Very Long Summer
Review: Tepidly written, annoyingly repetitious, and carelessly edited, "The Long Summer" will disappoint those many readers who have enjoyed Brian Fagan's earlier works. There is very little new here, though the discussion of the rise of cities is quite interesting, and communication of the bitter cold during the Ice Age and how Cro-Magnons coped with it is fascinating. Most readers, though, will prefer David Keys's "Catastrophe" and Simon Winchester's "Krakatoa."
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