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The Ice Finders
How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age
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Artikel-Nr:
9781582431017
Veröffentl:
2000
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.09.2000
Seiten:
268
Autor:
Edmund Blair Bolles
Gewicht:
326 g
Format:
203x127x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Edmund Blair Bolles is a former Peace Corps teacher who grew up in Washington, D.C., Paris, France, and Toledo, Ohio. His undergraduate degree is from Washington University in St. Louis, and he has a Masters in English from the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in New York City.
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was a Swiss professor who conceived of the Ice Age and then spent decades trying to persuade other scientists he had not gone mad. Charles Lyell (1797-1875) was the century's most influential geologist and a master politician among his fellow scientist. His scientific principles said an Ice Age was impossible, even after his eyes showed him it was real. Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857), an adventurer trapped for two winters at the top of Greenland, wrote a poetic description of a harsh and frozen landscape. His words portrayed the previously unimaginable great ice and set the stage for the story's unexpected outcome.