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010 $a 2006021489
020 $a9780374130589 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0374130582 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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035 $a(NNC)6210174
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050 00 $aQE320$b.W38 2007
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100 1 $aWatzman, Haim.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001043463
245 12 $aA crack in the earth :$ba journey up Israel's Rift Valley /$cHaim Watzman.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2007.
300 $a194 pages :$bmaps ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 189-192).
505 00 $gI.$tFacts on the ground -- $gII.$tHanging by a hair -- $gIII.$tFloating in the air.
520 1 $a"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 zoologist whose study of bird societies has produced a theory of why organisms cooperate, and a geologist who thinks that the valley will someday be an ocean. He encountered people whose life and work on the shores of the Dead Sea and the Jordan River have led them to dream, of paradise and to seek to build Gardens of Eden on earth - a booster for a chemical factory, the director of a tourist site, and an aging socialist farmer who curates a museum of idols. And he discovered that the geography's instability is mirrored in the volatility of the stories that people tell about the Sea of Galilee."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aGeology$zGreat Rift Valley$xHistory.
650 0 $aRifts (Geology)$zAfrica, East.
650 0 $aRifts (Geology)$zMiddle East.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85114068
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006021489.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2006021489-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2006021489-d.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hQE320$i.W38 2007