The book should be of interest not only to earth scientists, students of polar travel and exploration, and historians but to all readers who are fascinated by t

A source of profound influence and controversy, this landmark 1915 work explains various phenomena of historical geology, geomorphy, paleontology, paleoclimatol

A biography of the man who created the theory of continental drift.

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