"Majestic. . . . Captivating. . . . Blackburn's book on the past is above all a response to the urgent problems of the present." --The Times Literary Supplement

"This is an extraordinary book about time, absence, and perception. . . . Blackburn shows us that, in a time of flux and friction, the gathering of uncertainties can bring greater awareness and a sense of wholeness." --The Wall Street Journal

"Gripping. . . . Unconventional. . . . A meditation on the Mesolithic and what people are truly looking for when they turn to the past." --The Economist

"Blackburn has a talent for envisioning bygone worlds. . . . The book is less about Doggerland itself than about . . . the tantalizing objects, be they fossils or faxes, that can bridge the living to the dead." --The New York Times Book Review