The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World - Couverture souple

Nunn, Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1472943260 ISBN 13 : 9781472943262

Editeur : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018

Synopsis

How much of what our became the folk tales of our ancestors was rooted in scientifically verifiable fact, and what can they tell us about the future?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Patrick Nunn received a PhD from the University of London before spending 25 years teaching and researching at the University of the South Pacific, where he became Professor of Oceanic Geoscience in 1996. He moved to Australia in 2010 to work at the University of New England before being appointed to a research professorship at the University of the Sunshine Coast in 2014.

The author of more than 320 peer-reviewed publications, Patrick has also written several books, including two for Bloomsbury Sigma, The Edge of Memory and Worlds in Shadow.

Patrick has received the Gold Medal of both the Pacific Science Association (2003) and the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland (2018) and was one of those scientists to share the award of the (2007) Nobel Peace Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Sigma
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472943260
• ISBN 13: 9781472943262
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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