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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In Underland, Macfarland delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through "deep time" - the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present - he moves from the birth of the universe...
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Language
English
Description
In this book Bill Bryson explores the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer and attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see if...
Author
Publisher
Arrowhead Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
This book is a great history about the Superstition Mountains, its people, and its legend with an ending still unwritten. Few subjects attribute so much to legend and lore as does the famous tale of the Lost Dutchman Mine. For almost a century men and women have searched the Superstition Mountains of central Arizona for what they believe is the richest gold mine in the world. It is their stories which compose most of the history of these mountains....
6) Canyonlands
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Canyonlands is the little-known jewel of the American National Parks. The stark landscape contains more than 300,000 acres of desert wilderness, towering spires, and spectacular canyons. The rugged terrain is also a history book of time. Its stories stretch from the geologic forces that created this land, to the beginnings of life on earth and from ancient people, to the cowboys and outlaws of the Old West. Venture beyond the tourist hotspots to discover...
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