The ghost lake: The true story of Louis Agassiz (Voyager series)
Description
Louis Agassiz convinced a reluctant scientific community that glaciers moved and that a great Ice Age had once existed. In one of his most stirring public speeches he said, "Many years ago a long winter settled over a land previously covered with rich vegetation, where great beasts like those found in India and Africa freely roamed. Death entered with its terrors. With one blow of its violent hand it destroyed a mighty creation and wrapped all nature in a shroud of ice."Introduction: The Ghost Lake -The True Story of Louis AgassizEven when he was very young, Louis Agassiz was fasc...
ISBN(s)
0801088704, 9780801088704
