Lou Marincovich

True North: Hunting Fossils Under the Midnight Sun (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Lou Marincovich yearned for a life of adventure and strong emotions -- and got far more than he anticipated. Here are true-life adventure stories you have never heard before, from places you have never been. Inspired to become a paleontologist, he plunged into realms of life where intellectuals rarely go, working hardhat jobs on offshore oil rigs in equatorial Africa and wintertime Alaska to afford grad school, and laboring beside cutthroat coworkers, one of whom he was barely restrained from murdering. As an internationally acclaimed paleontologist, Marincovich researched fossil mollusks in the surreal landscapes of remotest Alaska, Arctic Canada and Siberia. While documenting faunal and climate change in the Arctic over the span of 60 million years, he solved the mystery of Bering Strait's age, discovered an unnamed river, survived a helicopter crash, several bush plane accidents, a near-drowning in an icy river, landslides, punishing storms and predator attacks. He saved his life by shooting a charging grizzly with his only bullet. Marincovich found the wilderness adventures he craved as a young man, but he was also rewarded by surprising and profound spiritual experiences, during one of which he found his soul mate. His unique story is one of youthful yearning, high adventure, moral lapses, scientific discovery and love. True North, Hunting Fossils Under the Midnight Sun was awarded a 2017 Bronze Medal in the Adventure and Recreation category by Foreword Reviews Magazine, an unusual accolade for a first-time author. It was also one of six finalists in the Memoirs category in a national contest sponsored by National Indie Excellence Awards.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bering Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393947844
• Artikelnr.: 57896912

Autorenporträt

Lou Marincovich, PhD, is a paleontologist who specializes in studying Cenozoic marine mollusks of the North Pacific and Arctic oceans. He is the only scientist fortunate enough to have focused on this topic for an entire career. During his career with the U.S. Geological Survey and the California Academy of Sciences, he documented the changing climate of the Arctic over sixty million years as evidenced in the shifting migration of mollusk species between Asia and North America. He was the first to show that ancient lineages of mollusks considered extinct at the end-Mesozoic extinction some 65 million years ago continued to dwell for millions of years in the Arctic Ocean beside newly evolved Cenozoic species. And his fortuitous find of a fossil clam specimen in a museum collection led him to solve the mystery of Bering Strait's age. Dr. Marincovich has authored more than 100 scientific articles and books. He is a Research Associate in Geology at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. As a child, he was inspired to become a paleontologist by a children's book on fossils, and he hopes to pass along this lifelong inspiration through the pages of True North: Hunting Fossils Under the Midnight Sun. Visit the author online at www.loumarincovich.com.