The Book of Unconformities
by
Hugh Raffles
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1891241737
ISBN-13
9781891241734
Publisher
Verse Chorus Press
Imprint
Verse Chorus Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 26th, 2022
Print length
392 Pages
Weight
524 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.40 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
Memoirs
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When anthropologist Hugh Raffles''s two sisters died suddenly within weeks of one another, he reached for rocks as reassuringly solid objects, ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. His book is grounded in stories of specific stones and their intimate relationships to human activity - the seam of marble under Manhattan prized by its native Lenape people, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified blubber on Svalbard''s beaches left by the brutal 19th-century whaling industry - culminating in the heart-breaking story of six Inuit adventurers Robert Peary transported from Greenland to display alongside a huge iron-ore meteorite in 1890s New York.
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