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Book:Name: David Goodrich - A Voyage Across an Ancient Ocean (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 3.55 MB
Description:Title: A Voyage Across an Ancient Ocean
Author: David Goodrich
Language: francuski
Year: 2009
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 9782700302080
Total pages: 752 str.
Download from RapidGatorIn the face of widespread misinformation and misunderstanding, a climate scientist ventures into the vast heart of America's new oil country on just two wheels.
Recently recovered from his epic bicycle journey that took him from the Delaware shore to the Oregon coast, distinguished climate scientist David Goodrich sets out on his bike again to traverse the Western Interior Seaway-an ancient ocean that once spread across half of North America. When the waters cleared a geologic age ago, what was left behind was vast, flat prairie, otherworldly rock formations, and oil shale deposits. As Goodrich journeys through the Badlands and Theodore Roosevelt National Park and across the prairies of the upper Midwest and Canada, we get a raw and ground-level view of where the tar sands and oil reserves are being opened up at an incredible and unprecedented pace. Extraordinary and unregulated, this "black goldrush" is boom and bust in every sense. In a manner reminiscent of John McPhee...
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