The Ice Finders: How a Poet, Professor & Politician Discovered the Ice Age - Perfect for History Buffs & Science Enthusiasts
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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. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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A narrow subject, but the author brings out the main protagonists and the bickering and debating that went on before the question was settled. Unlike Global warming, or climate change, or whatever the current debate is, you can relate the reasons for cranky arguments and silly theories to what went on in this book.
