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Worlds in shadow : submerged lands in science, memory and myth / Patrick Nunn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nunn, Patrick D., 1955- author.
- Series:
- Bloomsbury Sigma series
- Bloomsbury sigma
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Ancient.
- Lost continents.
- Underwater archaeology.
- Physical Description:
- 352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021.
- Summary:
- The traces of much of human history - and that which preceded it - lie beneath the ocean surface. This is fertile ground for speculation, even myth-making, but also a topic on which geologists and climatologists have increasingly focused on in recent decades. This 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
- ch. 2 Worlds in Shadow
- ch. 3 Recently Drowned Lands
- ch. 4 At the Nexus of Science and Memory
- ch. 5 Red Herrings
- ch. 6 Hidden Depths
- ch. 7 Deep in Shadow
- ch. 8 Earth's Watery Shroud
- ch. 9 `The Island Tilts the Tourists Go Mad'
- ch. 10 Falling Apart
- ch. 11 `Huge and Mighty Hilles of Water'
- ch. 12 Volcanic Islands
- ch. 13 Slipping into the Shadows
- ch. 14 Out of the Shadows.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1472983475
- 9781472983473
- 9781472983480
- 1472983483
- OCLC:
- 1200198187
- Publisher Number:
- 99988527767
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