Mammoth by Richard Stone

Mammoth by Richard Stone

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Summary

In this narrative, two groups of explorers battle bitter cold, high winds and supply shortages to carry out their quest for a mammoth carcass that will help determine how the creature lived, how it died - and how it might be brought back to life.

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Mammoth by Richard Stone

In this adventure-filled narrative, science writer Richard Stone follows two groups of explorers- one a Russian-Japanese team, the other a French-led consortium- as they battle bitter cold, high winds, and supply shortages to carry out their quest. Armed with GPS, ground-penetrating radar, and Soviet-era military helicopters, they seek an elusive prize: a mammoth carcass that will help determine how the creature lived, how it died- and how it might be brought back to life.A riveting tale of high-stakes adventure and scientific hubris, Mammoth is also an intellectual voyage through uncharted moral terrain, as we confront the promise and peril of resurrecting creatures from the deep past.
Richard Stone is the European News Editor of Science magazine. He has written for Discover, the Washington Post, the Moscow Times, Smithsonian, and numerous other publications. A graduate of Cornell University and a Fulbright scholar in Russia, Stone won the Evert Clark Award for science journalism in 1995 for a Discover article and a Walter Sullivan Award in 2001 for an article in Smithsonian magazine.
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ISBN 13 9780738207759
ISBN 10 0738207756
Title Mammoth
Author Richard Stone
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Year published 2002-09-19
Number of pages 264
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.