Bibliograph

The ice finders, how a poet, a professor, and a politician discovered the Ice Age, Edmund Blair Bolles

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The ice finders, how a poet, a professor, and a politician discovered the Ice Age, Edmund Blair Bolles

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 257)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The ice finders

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

41465905

Responsibility statement

Edmund Blair Bolles

Sub title

how a poet, a professor, and a politician discovered the Ice Age

Summary

"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)."--Jacket

Table Of Contents

Ignorant, ambitious men -- Trading ignorance for action -- Changes of heart -- Rock bottom -- Thrust home -- Two tragedies and a triumph

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