{"product_id":"stone-breaker-kathleen-l-housley-9780819500281","title":"Stone Breaker: The Poet James Gates Percival and the Beginning of Geology in New England","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePercival probed the volcanic origins of rock via geology and the seething nature of his psyche via poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStone Breaker\u003c\/i\u003e is an in-depth, accessible biography of a true American polymath, James Gates Percival. A poet, linguist, and unstable savant Percival was also a brilliant geologist who walked thousands of miles crisscrossing first Connecticut and then Wisconsin to lay the foundation for the work of generations of Earth scientists. Exploring the confluences of literature, art, and geology, Kathleen L. Housley reveals how one of most famous poets of the 1820's became a renowned geologist with his groundbreaking\u003ci\u003e 1843 work Report on the Geology of the State of Connecticut\u003c\/i\u003e. The book includes historic photographs and paintings of the Connecticut landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication of this book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen L. Housley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819500283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819500281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.30w x 1.50d","brand":"Kathleen L. Housley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44078123352319,"sku":"9780819500281","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0b98aa8d-8990-499c-b735-87ebb1ebc39f.jpg?v=1685473671","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stone-breaker-kathleen-l-housley-9780819500281","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}