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.

Product details

• Authors: Blair Bolles, Edmund Blair Bolles
• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.09.2000
• EAN: 9781582431017
• ISBN: 978-1-58243-101-7
• No. of pages: 257
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 185 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; GARDENING / General, popular science, prehistory, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest