Water, Ice & Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes
Awarded the coveted John Burroughs Medal in Nature Writing, a scientific and poetic journey into Antarctica.
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- ISBN: 978-1-934137-08-6
- EAN: 9781934137086
- Produktnummer: 3406576
- Verlag: Bellevue Literary Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 271 S.
- Masse: H22.4 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.8 cm 372 g
- Gewicht: 372
Über den Autor
Bill Green is a geochemist and professor emeritus at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is also the author of Boltzmann's Tomb: Travels in Search of Science and Water, Ice & Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes, which received the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book, was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and was excerpted in The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic, edited by Elizabeth Kolbert.Green first traveled to Antarctica in 1968 and began conducting research there in 1980. To date he has been there nine times and has published many articles on the biogeochemical processes in the pristine lakes and meltwater streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
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