‘This man is a national treasure, and we should heed his every word.’

‘Accessible and engaging..An enlightening and uplifting view of the future.’

‘This new book is among [Flannery’s] best…Wonderfully thought provoking…Well informed and sobering.’

‘A small book full of big ideas…This book doesn’t just wow the reader with nifty ideas; Flannery explains how they actually work, with his signature fluency and clarity.’

‘This excellent book kept making me smile from sheer pleasure at what I was learning and how astonishing life on earth really is…If there’s a better way to learn about the last 100 million years on earth, I haven’t found one.’

‘[Flannery] is a master storyteller, with an eye for the revealing detail.’

‘Fluent and funny.’

‘A masterclass in science writing.’

‘A magisterial and very readable scholarly book that will feed your dreaming self all through the winter.’

‘An exciting book, full of wonder, affection and hope.’

‘Australian writer Tim Flannery is a man of dazzling talents: scientist, climate change activist, academic, explorer. In his latest book, Europe, he also turns time-traveller, invoking HG Wells’ fictional invention as he first sets the dials to whizz back 100 million years, before the continent had begun to emerge as a separate entity.’ 

‘The story of the continent’s infancy and growth is expertly and engagingly told’

‘Tim Flannery is a masterly narrator. He describes the development of flora, fauna, landscape and climate, of assassin snails and plesiosaurs right up to the appearance of homo sapiens so vividly that you become an eye witness…the further you read, this nonfiction book becomes a novel. It’s a wonderful natural history of Europe and of the region on our planet that would become Europe.’