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Stone by Stone: the Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls

By Robert , Thorson

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc;Walker Books
Year
2009
ISBN
9780802719201, 0802719201
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4317215 bytes)
Pages
224 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Architecture;Architecture--History--General;Histor

Description

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 layer time like Russian dolls, their smallest elements reflecting the longest spans, and Thorson urges us to study them, for each stone has its own story. Linking geological history to the early American experience, Stone by Stone presents a fascinating picture of the land the Pilgrims settled, allowing us to see and understand it with new eyes.

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