About the Author:
About the Authors:
Charles Officer is Research Professor in the Earth Sciences Department and Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Jake Page writes a column for Destination Discovery called "Jake's Page." He has written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, Reader's Digest, and many other magazines.
Review:
"Tales of the Earth reads like 'Ripley's Believe It or Not' with footnotes, but the authors are never less than scholarly. They respond to catastrophe with curiousity, not panic: if we can't banish natural disasters, we can at least learn to be better stewards of the planet."--Newsweek
"A splendid book, well-illustrated and engagingly written, skillfully blending vivid eyewitness accounts of natural catastrophes and man-made accidents with lucid discussion of their scientific explanation and human impact."--Frank H.T. Rhodes, President, Cornell University
"Exceptionally lively....From hundreds of millions of years ago to this summer, from droughts and ice ages and volcanos to the black plague, Officer and Page prance from topic to topic across the aeons, providing an irresistable combination of history, speculation, humor and 'hard science'
explanation."--Washington Post Book World
"Disasters make good reading. Charles Officer and Jake Page, a scientist and a science journalist, respectively, understand that."--The Boston Sunday Globe
"Big-league environmental events--chronicled in absorbing, illuminating style by office...The authors present a grab bag of awesome earthly happenings, concentrating on events so stupendous that they changed the course of history, or are in the process of doing so....A work of science that
reads like a good mystery--and that's entertainment."--Kirkus Reviews
"Ravaging ice, floods, titanic eruptions, noxious atmospheres, insidious plagues and extinctions, visitors from outer space, the enormous toll from imperceptible erosion over vast time....It's clear that we are still in danger when it comes to an Earth that constantly remakes itself from
inside and out. Here's compelling stories of a 'terra nova' full of violence and mayhem--with a dramatic sweep that has few parallels. And the discovery of these tales of Earth, full of great characters, remain the most compelling in all of science. But now a new and dangerous force is loosed on
the world--humans! By connecting Eearth's notorious past to the change we find around us today, Officer and Page provide a much needed perspective. If we can learn from the past, they believe we're up to the challenge of living with the Earth in the future."--Gregory Andorfer, Producer, Planet
Earth, Cosmos, and Space Age
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