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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 by Bolles, Edmund Blair
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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.

Publisher: Catapult
Published: 09/27/2000
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.05w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9781582431017

About the Author
Edmund Blair Bolles is a former Peace Corps teacher who grew up in Washington, D.C., Paris, France, and Toledo, Ohio. His undergraduate degree is from Washington University in St. Louis, and he has a Masters in English from the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in New York City.