I thought The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery was very good. The book actually covers a long timespan.

I thought The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery was very good. The book actually covers a long timespan. It begins with the Chicxulub meteor impact 66 million years BP and ends with the present time. Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0802138888/ http://www.amazon.com/dp/0802138888/