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Forgotten Footprints

Prateek Dasgupta, Kenny Minker
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Forgotten Footprints brings you tales from lesser-known civilizations and cultures from the Ice Age to the collapse of the Mongol Empire.

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  • Prateek Dasgupta

    Author of Forgotten Footprints: Untold Stories of Humanity's Past. Bringing you stories of lesser-known civilizations, lost cities, and vanished empires from the Ice Age to the fall of the Mongol Empire.

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    Geopolitics, policy, culture, sustainability, urban planning, life in Peru, and travels around Latin America. Also birds, and plants.

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