Bill Green (1) (1942–)
Auteur de Water, Ice, And Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes
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A propos de l'auteur
Bill Green is a professor of Interdisciplinary studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
Séries
Œuvres de Bill Green
Oeuvres associées
The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007) — Contributeur — 131 exemplaires
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- Autres noms
- GREEN, Bill
- Date de naissance
- 1942
- Sexe
- male
- Courte biographie
- Bill Green is a geochemist and professor emeritus at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is also the author of Water, Ice & Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes which received the American Museum of Natural History’s John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing, was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and was excerpted in The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic, edited by Elizabeth Kolbert.
Green first traveled to Antarctica in 1968 and began doing his own research there in 1980. To date he has been there nine times and has published many articles on the biogeochemical processes in the pristine lakes and meltwater streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
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One of the best novels listed as revealing China's relationship with America and Australia
looks worthwhile but havent got around to reading it yet!
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 90
- Popularité
- #205,795
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 54
- Langues
- 1
"Spells out in blistering openness the excesses and dilemmas that characterised Australian politics."
But there's also a little more to this book, knowing, from chatting to the author, that part of the action - something about a plucky Australian going up against a CIA bloke who eventually went on to be something biggish in American Politics ... well it makes the reading of this book even more tantalising. How much of this is truth and how much is fiction? It's impossible to pick the lines (if there are any).
Bill's style is very tongue in cheek, very irreverent, extremely funny and greatly missed.… (plus d'informations)