Enjoyable book of "popular science" about the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon. The Neanderthal are covered as earlier residents of Europe into which the Cro-Magnon (modern man--homo sapiens) moved and, arguably, as a point of contrast. The Neanderthal pretty much get the short end of the stick in Faga...
Despite the title, this is not so much a book about the Little Ice Age as a series of chapters on the theme of the role of the climate on human history and in particular the history of North Western Europe which are framed around roughly the period of Little Ice Age. Therefore what is given in th...