Lost Worlds Audiobook Chapter: "The World As It Was"
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Patrick's new book Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World comes out May 5th! Check out a free preview of the first chapter of the audiobook, "The World As It Was," and learn about the Clovis people and reindeer hunters in Europe at the end of the last Ice Age. Preorder in hardcopy, ebook, or audiobook (read by Patrick) here: https://bit.ly/PWLostWorlds.
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| 0:00.0 | Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Tides of History ad-free right now. |
| 0:05.2 | Join Audible today by downloading the Audible ad... |
| 0:11.8 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:13.3 | From Audible, welcome to another episode of Tides of History. |
| 0:17.2 | As always, I am Patrick Wyman. |
| 0:19.4 | Thank you so much for being here with me today. So I've got something |
| 0:23.0 | special and different for you here. It is chapter one of my new book, Lost Worlds, How Humans Tried, |
| 0:30.0 | Failed, Fated, and Built Our World, which comes out May 5th. I recorded the audiobook in February |
| 0:36.0 | at one of the coolest recording studios in the |
| 0:38.3 | world, the village in Los Angeles, and I think this is some of the best audio work that I have |
| 0:42.9 | ever done. I am so excited to share it with you all. Chapter 1 is entitled The World as it was, |
| 0:49.6 | and it's all about the waning days of the Ice Age across the planet. What the world was like, the various |
| 0:55.5 | bands of foragers who inhabited it, and where their various paths would lead over the coming |
| 1:00.4 | millennia. We'll talk a little bit more about the Clovis culture, but we will also go to Europe |
| 1:05.5 | and the Near East to meet other people who survived in this incredibly harsh time. Pre-orders are absolutely the most important |
| 1:12.4 | factor driving the success of the book launch, so if you like this sample chapter, I would be |
| 1:16.8 | eternally grateful if you bought the book before or right at launch. That is the biggest thing |
| 1:22.3 | anybody can do to help. I'm really proud of this book that I wrote. I think it's the best thing I've ever done |
| 1:28.1 | in all of my years of writing and research, and I am so proud to share it with you all. So, |
| 1:33.1 | I hope you enjoy Chapter 1 of Lost Worlds, the World as it was. |
| 1:50.6 | Chapter 1. The World as it was. |
| 1:55.9 | Montana, 12,900 years ago. |
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