Worlds in shadow : submerged lands in science, memory and myth
Nunn, Patrick D., 1955-2021
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Click and Collect for Worlds in shadow : submerged lands in science, memory and myth"Worlds in Shadow is the first book to present the science of submergence in a popular format. Patrick Nunn sifts the fact from the fiction, using the most up-to-date research to work out which submerged places may have actually existed versus those that probably only exist in myth. He looks at the descriptions of recently drowned lands that have been well-documented, those that could possibly be plausible, and those that almost certainly didn't exist. Reaching even further back, Nunn examines the presence of older, more ancient lands, submerged beneath the waves in a time that even the longest-reaching folk memory can't reach. Finally, he considers why and how lands became submerged, whether from sea-level changes, tectonic changes, gravity collapse, giant waves or volcanoes, and looks to the future to uncover why, when and where land may disappear in the future, and what might be done to prevent it"-- Provided by publisher.
Worlds in shadow : submerged lands in science, memory and myth / Patrick Nunn.
Nunn, Patrick D., 1955-, author
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021.©2021
352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-344).
9781472983473 (hbk)9781472983473
551
English
479847
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Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Environment | 551 NUN | Available |
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