
My Experiment with Volcanoes
By Thomas Augustus JaggarLength8h 49m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "When I was fourteen my father the Reverend Thomas Augustus Jaggar, took our family to Europe, where botany and bird life were as much a part of my education as geography, French, and Italian. And it was during our visit in Italy that I made my first trip up Vesuvius. All of these early interests convinced me that I wanted to be a naturalist. It was Nathaniel Shaler at Harvard who told me to go and study the beaches at Lynn and Nahant. So I walked and photographed, and measured ripplemarks. I found a headland and a longshore accumulation with scallops dwindling regularly along the high-tide level. I found swash marks a foot across forming as the tide went out. On the dunes were other sand waves beautifully regular."
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, Travel
Length8 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 9, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1My Experiments
6Chapter III Expedition Decade
2ILLUSTRATIONS
7Chapter IV Living with Volcanoes
3PREFACE
8Chapter V Expansion Decade
4Chapter I Young Scientist
9Chapter VI Prophecy and Hope
5Chapter II Imitating Ripplemarks
10Chapter VII Envoi