Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed, and Wonder - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Counterpoint LLCISBN-13:9781640097445ISBN-10:1640097449UPC:9781640097445Book Category:Nature, Travel, HistoryBook Subcategory:Rocks & Minerals, Essays & Travelogues, EuropeSize:9.00 x 6.30 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC3F2V5W9P
Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed, and Wonder
Discover the wonders and perils of the earth's precious metals--what they have offered us as humans, and how they've forever changed our relationship with the world around us The ground beneath our feet is full of riches: the ocher that allowed prehistoric humans to paint on cave walls; the tin that drove the early Industrial Revolution; radium, the source of Marie Curie's wonder; and lithium,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Counterpoint LLCISBN-13:9781640097445ISBN-10:1640097449UPC:9781640097445Book Category:Nature, Travel, HistoryBook Subcategory:Rocks & Minerals, Essays & Travelogues, EuropeSize:9.00 x 6.30 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC3F2V5W9P
PHILIP MARSDEN is the award-winning author of a number of works of travel writing, fiction, and nonfiction, including The Bronski House, The Spirit-Wrestlers, The Levelling Sea, and, for Granta, Rising Ground and The Summer Isles. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and his work has been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Cornwall, England, on an old farm beside a...
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