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All the Land (Hardcover)
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All the Land (Hardcover)
Series: The German List
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Now in paperback, a biography of the German scientist who came up
with the idea of continental drift, telling of how he ended up
journeying to Greenland in the winter of 1930--and died there. How,
in 1930, did Alfred Wegener, the son of a minister from Berlin,
find himself in the most isolated spot on earth, attempting to
survive an unthinkably cold winter in the middle of Greenland? In
All the Land, Jo Lendle sets out to chronicle Wegener's
extraordinary journey from his childhood in Germany to the most
unforgiving corner of the planet. As Lendle shows, Wegener's life
was anything but ordinary. Surrounded by children at the orphanage
his parents ran, Wegener was driven by his scientific spirit in
search not only of answers to big questions but of solitude. Though
Wegener's life ended in tragedy during his long winter in
Greenland, he left us with a scientific legacy: the theory of
continental drift, mocked by his peers and only recognized decades
after his death. Lendle gives us the story of this great
adventurer, of the experiences that shaped him, resulting in a tale
that is both thrilling and tender.
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