Description:Percival probed the volcanic origins of rock via geology and the seething nature of his psyche via poetryStone Breaker is an in-depth, accessible biography of a true American polymath, James Gates Percival. A poet, linguist, and unstable savant Percival was also a brilliant geologist who walked thousands of miles crisscrossing first Connecticut and then Wisconsin to lay the foundation for the work of generations of Earth scientists. Exploring the confluences of literature, art, and geology, Kathleen L. Housley reveals how one of most famous poets of the 1820's became a renowned geologist with his groundbreaking 1843 work Report on the Geology of the State of Connecticut. 35 color images include historic photographs and paintings of the Connecticut landscape.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Stone Breaker: The Poet James Gates Percival and the Beginning of Geology in New England (The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books). To get started finding Stone Breaker: The Poet James Gates Percival and the Beginning of Geology in New England (The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Stone Breaker: The Poet James Gates Percival and the Beginning of Geology in New England (The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books)
Description: Percival probed the volcanic origins of rock via geology and the seething nature of his psyche via poetryStone Breaker is an in-depth, accessible biography of a true American polymath, James Gates Percival. A poet, linguist, and unstable savant Percival was also a brilliant geologist who walked thousands of miles crisscrossing first Connecticut and then Wisconsin to lay the foundation for the work of generations of Earth scientists. Exploring the confluences of literature, art, and geology, Kathleen L. Housley reveals how one of most famous poets of the 1820's became a renowned geologist with his groundbreaking 1843 work Report on the Geology of the State of Connecticut. 35 color images include historic photographs and paintings of the Connecticut landscape.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Stone Breaker: The Poet James Gates Percival and the Beginning of Geology in New England (The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books). To get started finding Stone Breaker: The Poet James Gates Percival and the Beginning of Geology in New England (The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.