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The Ice Finders

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

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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.

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The Ice Finders, Edmund Blair Bolles

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Título
The Ice Finders
Subtítulo
How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age
Idioma
Inglés
Editorial
Counterpoint
Publicado en
1999
Formato
Tapa dura
Páginas
257
ISBN10
1582430306
ISBN13
9781582430300
Serie
Descripción
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.