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Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood | 
 enlarge | Author: John Soennichsen
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 243600
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 1570615055
Dewey Decimal Number: 550.92
EAN: 9781570615054
ASIN: 1570615055
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
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Channeled Scablands, between Idaho and the Cascades, is a unique landscape of basalt cliffs, dry waterfalls, canyons, and coulees. Legendary geologist J Harlen Bretz was the first to explore the area, starting in the 1920s. This dramatic book tells the story of this scientific maverick — how he came to study the region, his radical theory that a flood of biblical proportions created it, and how a campaign by the mainstream geologic community tried to derail him for pursuing an idea that satellite photos would confirm decades later.
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A Good Look at A Rebel November 24, 2008
Soennichsen has brought Mr. Bretz alive. The other excellent books about Bretz talk in detail about what he did, but the author completes the circle. Even if this is your first book about Bretz, you will come away with a good understanding of Bretz's work.
I heartily recommend this book.
Bob Bushnell
Excellent story November 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
[[ASIN:1570615055 Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood]This is a wonderfully written story that brings an area, a story and a man vividly to life! I looked forward to this book because I had really enjoyed Soennichsen's last work, and he did not disappoint!
Gives the reader a solid understanding of the event, and of the man who unraveled the mystery November 4, 2008
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Author Soennichsen brings to this work both the science of a significant geologic event and his considerable skills as a biographer. The result is a captivating account of J. Harlan Bretz's lifelong determination to convince a doubting scientific establishment that one of the postulates of their field was in error - that the earth's physical condiditon today could result at least in part from a catclysmic event, rather than only from predictable slow processes. While I knew the story of the event well from other readings (particularly David Alt), Soennichsen brought to me the character of the man who withstood the barbs and arrows of doubt and lived to see vindication.
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