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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Down to Earth
    sub title: A Memoir
  name:
    name part: Pálsson, Gísli
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  name:
    name part: Project Muse
    role:
      role term: distributor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (pages cm)
  abstract: "Can one have something in common with a lava field? Can one identify with a mountain, or connect with a contemporary event in the history of the earth, in the way that some people feel connected together by birthday, genetic fingerprint, or zodiac sign? In the terms of the Christian burial ceremony, what is this earth from which we come and to which we return?In Down to Earth, Gísli Pálsson explores such questions through both personal reflection on the microcosm of his childhood home, an Icelandic island disrupted by volcanic eruption, and a critical discussion of the current age of the Anthropocene, characterized by the growing environmental impact of humans. While environmental hazards caused by humans often inform public discussion of the Anthropocene, human impact on the planet is not always detrimental. This book discusses in detail the pioneering effort on Heimaey island to cool molten lava and to divert its flow, in order to save a fishing harbor and the community it has allowed to thrive. Mingling the personal and the geological, the local and the global, Down to Earth should appeal to many readers in diverse contexts throughout the English-speaking world. The author appears to the reader when it suits him, naturally enough, and on occasion near the center of the narrative, in the vicinity of earthquakes, eruptions, and other natural hazards."
  note: Gísli Pálsson.
  subject:
    topic: Memoirs
  subject:
    topic: Volcanology & seismology
  subject:
    topic: Iceland
  subject:
    topic: Anthropologists
    geographic: Iceland
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists
  classification: GN21.G56
  classification: 301.092
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Book collections on Project MUSE
  identifier: 9781953035172
  identifier: 1953035175
  identifier: 9781953035165
  identifier: 2020947754
  identifier: 22573/cats2330665 JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2353926
  record info:
    record content source: P@U
    record creation date: 201013
    record change date: 20230512212254.0
    record identifier: in00004691489
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng