Research Catalog
Esau
- Title
- Esau / Philip Kerr.
- Author
- Kerr, Philip.
- Publication
- New York : Henry Holt, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR6061.E784 E8 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 372 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Clinging to the southwest face of Annapurna, the climber cuts another handhold. Suddenly, everything goes still - then the mountain roars, shaking loose its killing load, tumbling the climber before it. In an ice cave high in the Himalayas, a perfectly preserved skull is found. A fossil from a long-ago era, it is neither ape nor man.
- In a lab on the Berkeley campus, a paleoanthropologist learns that what she took to be a fossil find of the first order is in fact the scientific discovery of a lifetime - proof of an alternative line of hominid development. Philip Kerr spins a tale in which science, politics, and human frailty combine to take us on a stunning foray into the wilder shores of evolution, leaving us to speculate uneasily about the true nature of man.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Adventure fiction.
- Note
- "A Marian Wood book."
- "First published in Great Britain in 1996 by Chatto & Windus Limited"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN
- 0805051759 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96044310
- OCLC
- ocm35650881
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries