Crack in the Earth A Journey up Israel's Rift Valley

Name: Crack in the Earth A Journey up Israel's Rift Valley
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ISBN: 9780374130589

ISBN-10: 0374130582

ISBN-13: 9780374130589

Edition: 2007

Authors: Haim Watzman

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The Jordan Rift Valley, stretching from the Red Sea to Lebanon, was ripped open millions of years ago by vast forces within the earth. This geological object has also been a part of human history ever since early humans used it as a path in their journey out of Africa. And for a quarter of a century it has been part of the biography of Haim Watzman, an Israeli journalist. In the autumn of 2004, as his country was riven by a fierce debate over its borders, Watzman took a two-week journey up the valley. Along the way he met scientists who try to understand the rift through the evidence lying on its surface--an archaeologist who reconstructs the fallen altars of a long-forgotten people, a…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 194
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




Facts on the Ground



Hanging By a Hair



Floating in the Air


Note on Sources


Acknowledgments