A Crack in the Earth: A Journey up Israel's Rift Valley
by Watzman, Haim
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374130582
- ISBN 13
- 9780374130589
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NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 194 pages. The Jordan Rift Valley, stretching from the Red Sea to Lebanon, was ripped open millions of years ago by vast forces within the earth. This geological object has also been a part of human history ever since early humans used it as a path in their journey out of Africa. And for a quarter of a century it has been part of the biography of Haim Watzman, an Israeli journalist. In the autumn of 2004, as his country was riven by a fierce debate over its borders, Watzman took a two-week journey up the valley. Along the way he met scientists who try to understand the rift through the evidence lying on its surface—an archaeologist who reconstructs the fallen altars of a long-forgotten people, a zoologist whose study of bird societies has produced a theory of why organisms cooperate, and a geologist who thinks that the valley will some day be an ocean. He encountered people whose life and work on the shores of the Dead Sea and Jordan River have led them to dream of paradise and to seek to build Gardens of Eden on earth—a booster for a chemical factory, the director of a tourist site, and an aging socialist farmer who curates a museum of idols. And he discovered that the geography’s instability is mirrored in the volatility of the tales that people tell about the Sea of Galilee. Record # 385259
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 385259
- Title
- A Crack in the Earth: A Journey up Israel's Rift Valley
- Author
- Watzman, Haim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0374130582
- ISBN 13
- 9780374130589
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Travel, Israel, , .
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