Title The book of unconformities : speculations on lost time / Hugh Raffles

Published New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Marble -- Sandstone -- Gneiss -- Magnetite -- Blubberstone -- Iron -- Epilogue : muscovite Summary "Drawing on history, anthropology, accounts of exploration, and observation, Hugh Raffles undertakes a journey to places north--to investigate the uncertain survival and unsettling presence of ancient stones and the alluring glimpse that these stones open into lives and meanings now faded from view. He travels to Iceland, to the once standing Odin Stone in the Orkney Islands, to the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides, to the coal mines of Spitsbergen, and to the Museum of Natural History in New York to see the Cape York meteorite that Admiral Peary brought back from Greenland. Raffles also journeys to his own everyday north, on a crowded uptown New York City subway, rattling beneath Broadway, hurtling to a place called Marble Hill--the subterranean marble that soared into peaks, weathered into wooded hills, extruded and folded to form an island that once roamed upon an ancient ocean. Raffles's meditation leads him to understand how these fundamental objects and places can seem to lose their solidity and become inextricable from historic account and the architecture of human fate"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 07, 2020) Subject Megalithic monuments -- Great Britain. Anthropological museums and collections -- United States Anthropological ethics. HISTORY / Historical Geography. Travel Discoveries in geography Anthropological ethics Anthropological museums and collections Megalithic monuments Sacred stones SUBJECT Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006958 Arctic regions -- Description and travel New York (N.Y.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091418 Subject New York (State) -- New York Great Britain Arctic Regions United States Genre/Form History Cross-cultural studies Form Electronic book LC no. 2019048904 ISBN 9780804198011 0804198012

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