Author : John Walter Gregory
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138567184
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)
Book Synopsis Revival: The Structure of Asia (1976) by : John Walter Gregory
Download or read book Revival: The Structure of Asia (1976) written by John Walter Gregory and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At this time of narrow specialization in science, it seems almost impossible to fully grasp the personality of the author and his impact on the evolution of geological concepts. He belonged to the generation of unusual men who by their endeavors in different technical fields made the British Emprire into a domain where the sun never set. The author was a brilliant thinker endowed with the rare combination of an incredible memory for facts and a capacity for synthesis, and, as his explorations extended across all continents, he thus became an authority on the world as a whole. Nonetheless, he remained modest, sincere, and simple and always friendly toward his peers and his students. There are few scientific fields to which he did not contribute. In our present world of computer language he would be characterized by the key-words of geology, georgraphy, engineering, and sociology, a combination of disciplines which today appear unthinkable. In his time he was a scholar, a teacher, an adventurer, and a man of letters as well.