A Place on the Glacial till: Time, Land, and Nature within an American Town - Hardcover

Sherman, Thomas Fairchild

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195104420 ISBN 13: 9780195104424

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1996

Synopsis

A history of the plants, animals, and land around a small college town in northern Ohio. However, the place could be anywhere. The message is one that speaks to us wherever we are: that all time and nature abide within the rocks and soil and life around us; that the connections, the beauty, and the meaning are as deep as history and as broad as human understanding. Weaving together old and new findings from geology, archaeology, and ecology, this book reminds us of the elemental and eternal roots of our natural world, and of its meaning for the human spirit.

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About the Authors

About the Author:
A native of the Finger Lakes region of New York, Thomas Fairchild Sherman acquired an early appreciation for the outdoors, and while a student at Oberlin College, found summer employment as a wilderness guide in the Superior-Quetico country of Minnesota and Canada. As a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford
University, he combined his doctoral studies in biochemistry with bicycle explorations across the British countryside. For three decades until his recent retirement to the north woods of Maine, he taught biology at Oberlin, save for research fellowships at Yale, Harvard, Oxford, Johns Hopkins, and
Duke. He has led Oberlin students on biological field studies in England, the Great Smoky Mountains, and the Canadian wilderness, but most especially in the land which is the cherished subject of this book.


Thomas Fairchild Sherman taught biology at Oberlin, save for research fellowships at Yale, Harvard Oxford, Johns Hopkins, and Duke.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195104420
• ISBN 13: 9780195104424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192