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Planet earth
- Title
- Planet earth / Jonathan Weiner.
- Author
- Weiner, Jonathan
- Publication
- Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QE31 .W45 1986 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 370 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
- Summary
- "This book is a guide to our lving, changing planet. We journey to the rim of a great meteor crater ... we travel back in time to 1930, in the icy heart of Greenland ... We journey to the outer reaches of our solar system, dive to a rock erupt from the heart of the earth to form new undersea mountains and a new ocean floor. Ulimately we will come to see this planet not as a hunk of stone in space but more like a living organism -- with its own internal dynamics, exchanging gases, healing itself, increasingly dependent on a new host creature -- man-- to shape its future."--Fly leaf.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Popular works
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 355-363.
- Contents
- The living machine -- The blue planet -- The climate puzzle -- Tales from other worlds -- The solar sea -- Gifts from the Earth -- Fate of the Earth.
- ISBN
- 0553050966
- 9780553050967
- 0553343580
- 9780553343588
- LCCN
- 85047795
- OCLC
- ocm12724800
- 12724800
- SCSB-635193
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library