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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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- Released
- 1999
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- Title
- The Ice Finders
- Subtitle
- How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Edmund Blair Bolles
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 257
- ISBN10
- 1582430306
- ISBN13
- 9781582430300
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, Nature, Science, USA, Biographies, Prehistoric and ancient times, Nature Observation, Geology, History of Science, Ice Age
- Description
- 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.