Pictures of Time Beneath : Science, Heritage and the Uses of the Deep Past, P...

by Kirsty Douglas

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Pictures of Time Beneath : Science, Heritage and the Uses of the Deep Past, Paperback by Douglas, Kirsty, ISBN 064309704X, ISBN-13 9780643097049, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book is a series of well-written, sometimes lyric essays on three famous Australian places: Hallett Cove, an outdoor laboratory and museum on the edge of a suburban development, Lake Callabona, a salt flat that revealed the bones of prehistoric monsters over the course of more than a century, and Willandra Lakes, a World Heritage site where the bones of Mungo Lady, the oldest Australian, were discovered. Given the author's experience as a heritage scholar and expert interpreter of geology and history for the public, the essays have more informative material than most lyric writing (th has a few endnotes and a bibliography). But their function is mostly reflective: they tell readers remarkable stories about the land, the people, and millennia of history, and inspire us to think and to wonder. Th is well illustrated in black and white. It is nicely written, and will be of interest to readers interested in history, fossils, Australia, natural landscapes, or the work of other science writers and lyric essayists like Stephen Jay Gould, Sue Hubbell, Lewis Thomas, or Annie Dillard. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

• Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
• Year: 2010
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780643097049
• Condition: Fine

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