Charlotte's Bones
Omtale
In 1849, a crew building a railroad through Charlotte, Vermont, dug up strange and beautiful bones in a farmer's field. A local naturalist asked Louis Agassiz to help identify them, and the famous scientist concluded that the bones belonged to a beluga whale. But how could a whale's skeleton have been buried so far from the ocean? The answer--that Lake Champlain had once been an arm of the sea--encouraged radical new thinking about geological time scales and animal evolution.
Charlotte's Bones is a haunting, science-based reconstruction of how Charlotte died 11,000 years ago in a tidal marsh, how the marsh became a field, how Charlotte found a second life as the Vermont state fossil, and what messages her bones whisper to us now about the fragility of life and our changing Earth.
Produktinformasjon
- ISBN/Varenr: 9780884488606
- Utgivelsesdato: 03.11.2020
- Utgivelsesår: 2020
- Forlag: Tilbury House Pub
- Innbinding: Heftet
- Serie: Tilbury House Nature Book
- Nummer i serien: 0
- Språk: Engelsk
- Personer: Rounds, Erin, Carver, Alison
- Litteraturtype: Faglitteratur
- Emne: Children's Books/Ages 9/12 Nonfiction
- Målgruppe: Barn/ungdom
- Aldersgrense: 0
- Opplag: 0
- Utgave: 0
- Illustrert: Nei
- Sider: 36