Man and the Glacial PeriodWright, G. Frederick (George Frederick)
History
Man and the Glacial Period
Wright, G. Frederick (George Frederick)
Glacial epoch; Prehistoric peoples
_THE ICE AGE IN NORTH AMERICA, and its Bearings upon the Antiquity of
Man._ By G. Frederick Wright, D. D., LL. D., F. G. S. A., Professor in
Oberlin Theological Seminary; Assistant on the United States Geological
Survey. With an appendix on "The Probable Cause of Glaciation," by Warren
Upham, F. G. S. A., Assistant on the Geological Surveys of New Hampshire,
Minnesota, and the United States. New and enlarged edition. With 150 Maps
and Illustrations. 8vo, 625 pages, and Index. Cloth, $5.00.
"Not a novel in all the list of this year's publications has in it
any pages of more thrilling interest than can be found in this book
by Professor Wright. There is nothing pedantic in the narrative, and
the most serious themes and startling discoveries are treated with
such charming naturalness and simplicity that boys and girls, as
well as their seniors, will be attracted to the story, and find it
difficult to lay it aside."--_New York Journal of Commerce_.
"One of the most absorbing and interesting of all the recent issues
in the department of popular science."--_Chicago Herald_.
"Though his subject is a very deep one, his style is so very
unaffected and perspicuous that even the unscientific reader can
peruse it with intelligence and profit. In reading such a book we are
led almost to wonder that so much that is scientific can be put in
language so comparatively simple."--_New York Observer_.
"The author has seen with his own eyes the most important phenomena
of the Ice age on this continent from Maine to Alaska. In the work
itself, elementary description is combined with a broad, scientific,
and philosophic method, without abandoning for a moment the purely
scientific character. Professor Wright has contrived to give the
whole a philosophical direction which lends interest and inspiration
to it, and which in the chapters on Man and the Glacial Period rises
to something like dramatic intensity."--_The Independent_.
"... To the great advance that has been made in late years in the
accuracy and cheapness of processes of photographic reproduction
is due a further signal advantage that Dr. Wright's work possesses
over his predecessors'. He has thus been able to illustrate most
of the natural phenomena to which he refers by views taken in the
field, many of which have been generously loaned by the United States
Geological Survey, in some cases from unpublished material; and he
has admirably supplemented them by numerous maps and diagrams."--_The
Nation_.
_MAN AND THE GLACIAL PERIOD._ By G. Frederick Wright, D. D., LL. D.,
author of "The Ice Age in North America," "Logic of Christian Evidences,"
etc. International Scientific Series. With numerous Illustrations. 12mo.
Cloth, $1.75.
"It may be described in a word as the best summary of scientific
conclusions concerning the question of man's antiquity as affected by
his known relations to geological time."--_Philadelphia Press_.
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