The Ice Finders

How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age

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• Edmund Blair Bolles

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• 257 Seiten
• 9 Lesestunden

• Historisches Thema
• Natur
• Sachbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften
• Wissenschaft

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Swiss professor Louis Agassiz (1807-73) spent decades arguing that his conception of an Ice Age was not madness. Geologist and master politician Charles Lyell (1797-1875) tried to reconcile his own observations with scientific principles that made an Ice Age impossible. Adventurer and poet Elisha Kent Kane (1820-57) was trapped at the top of Greenland for two winters and portrayed a harsh and frozen landscape that made the Ice Age credible. Bolles, a prolific and popular science writer, tells the tale.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Einband: Hardcover