Author: Percy Harrison FawcettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Lost Trails, Lost Cities: from His Manuscripts, Letters, and Other Records
Author: Percy Harrison FawcettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
From His Manuscripts, Letters and Other Records Selected and Arranged by Brian Fawcett. Lost Trails, Lost Cities, by Col. P. H. Fawcett
Author: Percy Harrison Fawcett (Col.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Lost Trails, Lost Cities
Author: Percy Harrison FawcettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bolivia
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Cancer and the Search for Selective Biochemical Inhibitors
Author: E.J. HoffmanPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420045962
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The world of medicine has become splintered into two factions, that of orthodoxy and its counterpart, alternative or complementary medicine. A problem with alternative medicine is, of course, that of anecdote and hearsay. The solution: the disclosure, in an unassailable fashion, of the underlying biochemical principles for alternative cancer therap
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
Author: Michael TaylorPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1324093935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age. When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country’s southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had in fact discovered the “first” ichthyosaur, and over the next seventy-five years—as the science of paleontology developed, as Charles Darwin posited radical new theories of evolutionary biology, and as scholars began to identify the internal inconsistencies of the Scriptures—everything changed. Beginning with the archbishop who dated the creation of the world to 6 p.m. on October 22, 4004 BC, and told through the lives of the nineteenth-century men and women who found and argued about these seemingly impossible, history-rewriting fossils, Impossible Monsters reveals the central role of dinosaurs and their discovery in toppling traditional religious authority, and in changing perceptions about the Bible, history, and mankind’s place in the world.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Includes Part 1A, Number 1: Books (January - June) and Part 1B, Number 1: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
Author: Larry RohterPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324021276
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
“Rohter’s crisp biography is a welcome addition to the new, more inclusive canon.” —Rachel Slade, New York Times Book Review A thrilling biography of the Indigenous Brazilian explorer, scientist, stateseman, and conservationist who guided Theodore Roosevelt on his journey down the River of Doubt. Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native peoples had avoided them—and led Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, on their celebrated “River of Doubt” journey in 1913–14. Upon leaving the Brazilian Army in 1930 with the rank of a two-star general, Rondon, himself of indigenous descent, devoted the remainder of his life to not only writing about the region’s flora and fauna, but also advocating for the peoples who inhabited the rainforest and lobbying for the creation of a system of national parks. Despite his many achievements—which include laying down a 1,200-mile telegraph line through the heart of the Amazon and three nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize—Rondon has never received his due. Originally published in Brazil, Into the Amazon is the first comprehensive biography of his life and remarkable career.
The Living Wilderness
Author: Catalog of the Latin American Collection
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American CollectionPublisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
The Cumulative Book Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2276
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