Why read The Mediterranean was a Desert?

Book cover of The Mediterranean was a Desert: A Voyage of the Glomar Challenger

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The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, and its deep-sea drilling voyages, conducted from 1968 through 1983, were some of the great scientific adventures of our time. Beginning with the vessel's…

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1 author picked The Mediterranean was a Desert as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Graham Shields

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This book inspired my love of science.

I think that more than any other book I have read on geology, this one expresses best the excitement one feels when a group of scientists work together on one puzzle only to discover something entirely unexpected and even more astounding.

It is a racy account, littered with personal anecdotes of the major players, but it also describes the heady days when plate tectonics was developing from outrageous hypothesis to acknowledged fact.

From Graham's list on science in action written by scientists.