Libro Charlotte'S Bones: The Beluga Whale in a Farmer'S Field (Tilbury House Nature Book) De Rounds, Erin ; Carver, Alison

portada Charlotte'S Bones: The Beluga Whale in a Farmer'S Field (Tilbury House Nature Book)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Erin Rounds

Ilustrado por

Alison Carver

Editorial

Tilbury House Publishers

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

25.4 x 22.6 x 0.5 cm

Peso

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9780884488606

N° edición

Categorías

Dinosaurios y mundo prehistórico para jóvenes
Peces y vida marina

Charlotte'S Bones: The Beluga Whale in a Farmer'S Field (Tilbury House Nature Book)

Erin Rounds (Autor) · Alison Carver (Ilustrado por) · Tilbury House Publishers · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Charlotte'S Bones: The Beluga Whale in a Farmer'S Field (Tilbury House Nature Book)"

In 1849, a crew building a railroad through Charlotte, Vermont, dug up strange and beautiful bones in a farmer's field. A local naturalist asked Louis Agassiz to help identify them, and the famous scientist concluded that the bones belonged to a beluga whale. But how could a whale's skeleton have been buried so far from the ocean? The answer--that Lake Champlain had once been an arm of the sea--encouraged radical new thinking about geological time scales and animal evolution. Charlotte's Bones is a haunting, science-based reconstruction of how Charlotte died 11,000 years ago in a tidal marsh, how the marsh became a field, how Charlotte found a second life as the Vermont state fossil, and what messages her bones whisper to us now about the fragility of life and our changing Earth.