A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of The Greenland Ice, by William Glassley
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Today's Book Recommendation: A Wilder Time by William Glassley
The John Burroughs Association was formed to preserve his legacy. Every April, on the first Monday, they gather in New York City to present the John Burroughs Medal, John Burroughs Nature Essay Award, and Riverby Awards to the authors, illustrators, and publishers of the best-published nature writing.
This year's winner is:
A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of The Greenland Ice is a rich literary account of six expeditions to Greenland, where the author sought (and found) Earth's earliest signs yet of plate tectonics, the slow-motion movement and collisions of continents. Anchored by deep reflection and scientific knowledge, A Wilder Time is a portrait of an ancient, nearly untrammeled world that holds the secrets of our planet's deepest past, even as it accelerates into our rapidly changing future. The book bears a nature-writing classic's literary, scientific, intelligent, and poetic qualities, the rarest mixture of beauty and scholarship.
William E. Glassley is a geologist at the University of California, Davis, and an emeritus researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark, focusing on the evolution of continents and the processes that energize them. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle, and is the author of over seventy research articles and a textbook on geothermal energy. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Other notable recognized authors include Rachel Carson for her book The Sea Around Us and Aldo Leopold for A Sand County Almanac.
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