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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Green, Bill, 1942- Water, ice & stone. New York : Harmony Books, ©1995 (OCoLC)624378766 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bill Green |
ISBN: | 0517587599 9780517587591 |
OCLC Number: | 31433809 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Awards: | John Burroughs Medal, 1996 |
Description: | xvi, 283 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Ohio: West and South -- Water -- Rutherford's den -- The map -- Science and the shell -- The messenger and the disk -- Stone -- The lake -- The sea -- Hawaii -- An invention -- Whiteout -- The mailroom -- The gallery -- The flume -- The cone of Erebus -- The moat -- Merry Christmas -- Cathedrals -- North and East: Ohio. |
Other Titles: | Water, ice, and stone |
Responsibility: | Bill Green. |
More information: |
Abstract:
Bill Green goes to the lakes of Antarctica to do scientific field research, but finds in his own memories and in the beauty and brutality of a lonely, dangerous land, something of the awe and wonder that are the inspirations for scientific inquiry. -- Publisher's description.
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