Language of the Earth A Literary Anthology

by Rhodes, Frank H. T.; Stone, Richard O.; Malamud, Bruce D.

• ISBN13: 9781405160674
• ISBN10: 1405160675
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Man's complex relationship to planet Earth is explored in this second edition of the landmark anthology edited by Frank Rhodes and Bruce Malamud. This volume provides a portrait of the planet as experienced not just by scientists, but by artists, aviators, poets, philosophers, novelists, historians, and sociologists as well. A unique collection that bridges the gap between science and humanities Contains writings by scientists, artists, aviators, poets, philosophers, novelists, historians, and sociologists including Charles Darwin, Dane Picard, Rachel Carson, John Muir, Mark Twain and Archibald Geikie Represents the human experience over the centuries, covering a span of 2,500 years Reflects the planet's extraordinary physical diversity The previous edition was voted one of the 25 'Great Books of Geology' by readers of the Journal of Geological Education

Author Biography

Frank H.T. Rhodes is President Emeritus of Cornell University. Winner of the Geological Society’s Bigsby Medal and the Ian Campbell Medal from the Geological Society of America, Rhodes has served as Chairman of the National Science Board, President of the American Philosophical Society, and Chairman of the American Council on Education and also the American Association of Universities. His other books include The Evolution of Life, Geology, Evolution, Fossils, and The Creation of the Future, as well as many articles on geology, higher education, and the history of science.

Richard O. Stone (1920–78) was Chairman of the Department of Geological Sciences, UCLA. A past member of several honorary societies, Dr Stone wrote many technical articles for Geological Society of America, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, and American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.

Bruce D. Malamud is a Reader in Natural and Environmental Hazards at King’s College, London. A past Peace Corps volunteer in Niger and Fulbright Fellow in Argentina, he currently serves as Chief Editor of Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics and President of the Natural Hazards Division of the European Geosciences Union. He has over forty publications in the international scientific literature, including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research, and Earth & Planetary Science Letters.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Preface from the first edition	p. xii
Acknowledgments from the first edition	p. xv
The Earth Experienced	p. 1
Eyewitness Accounts of Earth Events	p. 3
Los Angeles Against the Mountains	p. 4
The Night the Mountain Fell	p. 6
The Turtle Mountain Slide	p. 11
Candide	p. 12
The Lisbon Earthquake	p. 15
The Temblor	p. 18
The Alaskan Good Friday Earthquake	p. 21
Tsunami	p. 23
Not a Very Sensible Place for a Stroll	p. 24
Last Days of St Pierre	p. 29
Beacons on the Passage Out	p. 32
Eruption of the Oraefajokull, 1727	p. 35
Exploration	p. 38
The Voyage of the Beagle	p. 38
The Map that Changed the World	p. 40
The Exploration of the Colorado River	p. 42
Mono Lake-Aurora-Sonora Pass	p. 44
Thrills in Fossil Hunting	p. 45
The Creative Explosion	p. 47
Attending Marvels: A Patagonian Journal	p. 49
Explorations	p. 50
The Blue Planet	p. 53
Geologists are also Human	p. 54
Stepping Stones	p. 55
William Buckland	p. 56
The Old Red Sandstone	p. 60
A Long Life's Work	p. 64
Life, Time, and Darwin	p. 66
King's Formative Years	p. 69
With Shackleton in the Antarctic	p. 72
The Great Diamond Hoax	p. 76
Sand, Wind, and War	p. 79
Ship's Wake	p. 81
Celebrities	p. 85
Benjamin Franklin and the Gulf Stream	p. 85
Leonardo Da Vinci as a Geologist	p. 87
Mineralogy, Geology, Meteorology	p. 89
Megalonyx, Mammoth, and Mother Earth	p. 93
Three Short, Happy Months	p. 96
Mountain-Worship	p. 98
Stanford University, 1891-1895	p. 100
Interpreting the Earth	p. 103
Philosophy	p. 105
Concerning the System of the Earth, its Duration and Stability	p. 106
The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses	p. 110
Historical Science	p. 113
What is a Species?	p. 116
Messages in Stone	p. 119
Natural Science, Natural Resources, and the Nature of Nature	p. 120
Does God Play Dice?	p. 123
The Fossil Record	p. 126
Earth and Man	p. 127
Flowering Earth	p. 129
Habits and Habitats	p. 134
Diplodocus, The Dinosaur	p. 137
A Window on the Oligocene	p. 141
A Fish Caught in Time	p. 143
Ape-like Ancestors	p. 145
The Relic Men	p. 146
Geotectonics	p. 151
From the Boundless Deep & The Birth of the Rockies	p. 152
When Pigs Ruled the Earth	p. 155
The Living Planet	p. 158
The Road to Jaramillo	p. 161
Mao's Almanac: 3,000 Years of Killer Earthquakes	p. 163
Geologic Jeopardy	p. 167
Controversies	p. 171
Apes, Angels, and Victorians	p. 172
The Great Piltdown Hoax	p. 175
Fossils and Free Enterprisers	p. 179
The K-T Extinction	p. 182
The Founders of Geology	p. 185
To a Rocky Moon	p. 188
Properties and Composition of Lunar Materials: Earth Analogies	p. 190
CFCs	p. 192
Language of the Earth	p. 195
Prose	p. 197
Out of Africa	p. 197
Seven Pillars of Wisdom	p. 200
Green Hills of Africa	p. 201
Wind, Sand and Stars	p. 202
The French Lieutenant's Woman	p. 204
Trip to the Middle and North Forks of San Joaquin River	p. 207
Roughing It	p. 209
A Place on the Glacial Till	p. 211
Basin and Range	p. 213
Neanderthal	p. 215
Antarctica	p. 218
The Lost World	p. 220
Poetry	p. 223
Landscape and Literature	p. 224
The Excursion	p. 226
The Lisbon Earthquake	p. 227
The Fountains of the Earth	p. 228
To a Trilobite	p. 229
A Shropshire Lad	p. 230
Mente et Malleo	p. 230
Selected Poems	p. 232
Lyell's Hypothesis Again	p. 233
Selected Poems	p. 234
Stone	p. 236
Fossils	p. 236
Rock	p. 237
Poetry Matters: Gary Snyder	p. 238
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?	p. 242
Art	p. 244
A Land: Sculpture	p. 245
Beyond Modern Sculpture	p. 247
Time's Profile: John Wesley Powell, Art, and Geology at the Grand Canyon	p. 249
Thomas Moran: American Landscape Painter	p. 253
Earth Calling	p. 255
The Crowded Planet	p. 257
Human History	p. 259
Minerals and World History	p. 260
A Land: Architecture	p. 261
The Geologic and Topographic Setting of Cities	p. 263
Topography and Strategy in the War	p. 266
Geology and Crime	p. 268
Tambora and Krakatau	p. 269
Mortgaging the Old Homestead	p. 273
Breathing the Future and the Past	p. 275
Resources	p. 277
Wealth from the Salt Seas	p. 278
Minerals, People, and the Future	p. 280
The Bingham Canyon Pit	p. 282
The Geological Attitude	p. 284
Geology - For Human Needs	p. 286
Benevolent Planet	p. 289
Gaia	p. 290
The Web of Life	p. 291
Remember the Land	p. 292
Rachel Carson: The Idea of Environment	p. 293
Silent Spring	p. 294
Who is El Nino?	p. 295
Essay on the Earth Sciences	p. 297
The Round Walls of Home	p. 299
The Butterfly Effect	p. 301
Pale Blue Dot	p. 304
Sources	p. 305
Names index	p. 315
Subject index	p. 320
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