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Reviewing John Reader’s Man on Earth for New Scientist, John Crook described
it as ‘compelling reading’. He also praised the great beauty of the pictures
taken by Reader to illustrate his journey round the world, investigating
how people and their societies adapt and change in response to different
ecologies. The book will now reach a wider audience as Penguin have published
it in paperback (pp 256, pounds 9.99). The book is a tribute to the ingenuity
of people, many surviving in the harshest of lands such as the Samburo people
who raise dairy cattle in the semi deserts of Africa or the Quechua Indians
(above) who grow potatoes in poor and heavy soil at 3000 metres above sea
level.