The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age
In the middle of the nineteenth century three diverse men discovered and named the Ice Ages. The heroes of the tale are an explorer-poet, Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857), who spent two years trapped on Greenland's north coast, the renowned Swiss professor-author-lecturer, Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), and the Scottish geologist (and master politician) Charles Lyell (1797-1875). With their investigations, these adventurers changed our understanding of natural history and transformed Geology into the foundational science that supports biology, paleontology, oceanography, and, of course, glaciology.
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The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age
In the middle of the nineteenth century three diverse men discovered and named the Ice Ages. The heroes of the tale are an explorer-poet, Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857), who spent two years trapped on Greenland's north coast, the renowned Swiss professor-author-lecturer, Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), and the Scottish geologist (and master politician) Charles Lyell (1797-1875). With their investigations, these adventurers changed our understanding of natural history and transformed Geology into the foundational science that supports biology, paleontology, oceanography, and, of course, glaciology.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781582431017 |
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| Publisher: | Catapult |
| Publication date: | 09/27/2000 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 268 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d) |
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