Stone by Stone The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls

Name: Stone by Stone The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls
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ISBN: 9780802776877

ISBN-10: 0802776876

ISBN-13: 9780802776877

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robert Thorson

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There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America’s Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story—about the geothermal forces that formed their stones, the tectonic movements that brought them to the surface, the glacial tide that broke them apart, the earth that held them for so long, and about the humans who built them. Stone walls tell nothing less than the story of how New England was formed, and in Robert Thorson’s hands they live and breathe. “The stone wall is the key that links the natural history and human…

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.70" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Robert M. Thorson is Professor of Geology at the University of Connecticut.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



England and New England, Common Ground



Making the Stone



Burying the Stone



Taking the Forest



Copious Stone



Building Walls



Land Abandoned



Rural Revival



Back to Nature



Writ in Stone


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Credits


Index