The Ice Finders : How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age (Paperback)

from Devil_llama

The story of how a disparate group of men eventually discovered that the earth had been through major ice ages that had covered large portions of the land with glaciers. An interesting adventure story that has the additional plus of being true.

from AspiringAmeliorant

The Ice Finders describes the birth and acceptance of the theory of the Ice Age (mid-nineteenth century). It focuses on the stories of three men: Louis Aggassiz, a geologist is portrayed as a man in search of details with a vested interest in finding a theory that meshed with his notion of Genesi...

from AspiringAmeliorant

The Ice Finders describes the birth and acceptance of the theory of the Ice Age (mid-nineteenth century). It focuses on the stories of three men: Louis Aggassiz, a geologist is portrayed as a man in search of details with a vested interest in finding a theory that meshed with his notion of Genesi...

from BruceCoulson

Scientific history, which explores how the Ice Ages went from being a lunatic theory dismissed by every reputable scientist to a valid, generally accepted explanation. Laymen who assume that scientists behave in a generally rational manner and carefully examine facts and evidence to reach conclus...