ISBN: 9798907635739 - the five landscapes: what tamil poets knew about the earth, and what satellites show us now (8 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Two thousand years ago, Tamil poets sorted the world into five landscapes: hills, forest, river plain, shore, and the parched land that has no place of its own. A flower or a bird in a poem told listeners where they stood, what season it was and what the lovers were feeling.Dr Aran Castro A J, a geologist who grew up on the Kanyakumari coast, reads those poems beside fifty years of satellite images. He finds poets who knew where the hills make the rain, why salt is a harvest of the shore, and how good land turns into palai. He tests the story of Kumari Kandam against the evidence of the seabed and the last Ice Age, follows the 2004 tsunami along his home coast and the 2024 Wayanad landslide down its valley, and shows why Chennai flooded in 2015 and ran short of water in 2019.Every important claim is marked settled, debated or unknown. Every chapter gives the reader a tool to take outside, from a slope check to a two-image test. The book also includes 16 maps and figures, a field card for any ground on Earth, and a guide to free satellite data.A book about reading land, and about what we lose when we stop. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Two thousand years ago, Tamil poets sorted the world into five landscapes: hills, forest, river plain, shore, and the parched land that has no place of its own. A flower or a bird in a poem told listeners where they stood, what season it was and what the lovers were feeling.Dr Aran Castro A J, a geologist who grew up on the Kanyakumari coast, reads those poems beside fifty years of satellite images. He finds poets who knew where the hills make the rain, why salt is a harvest of the shore, and how good land turns into palai. He tests the story of Kumari Kandam against the evidence of the seabed and the last Ice Age, follows the 2004 tsunami along his home coast and the 2024 Wayanad landslide down its valley, and shows why Chennai flooded in 2015 and ran short of water in 2019.Every important claim is marked settled, debated or unknown. Every chapter gives the reader a tool to take outside, from a slope check to a two-image test. The book also includes 16 maps and figures, a field card for any ground on Earth, and a guide to free satellite data.A book about reading land, and about what we lose when we stop. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Two thousand years ago, Tamil poets sorted the world into five landscapes: hills, forest, river plain, shore, and the parched land that has no place of its own. A flower or a bird in a poem told listeners where they stood, what season it was and what the lovers were feeling.Dr Aran Castro A J, a geologist who grew up on the Kanyakumari coast, reads those poems beside fifty years of satellite images. He finds poets who knew where the hills make the rain, why salt is a harvest of the shore, and how good land turns into palai. He tests the story of Kumari Kandam against the evidence of the seabed and the last Ice Age, follows the 2004 tsunami along his home coast and the 2024 Wayanad landslide down its valley, and shows why Chennai flooded in 2015 and ran short of water in 2019.Every important claim is marked settled, debated or unknown. Every chapter gives the reader a tool to take outside, from a slope check to a two-image test. The book also includes 16 maps and figures, a field card for any ground on Earth, and a guide to free satellite data.A book about reading land, and about what we lose when we stop. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. The Five Landscapes | What Tamil Poets Knew About the Earth, and What Satellites Show Us Now | Aran Castro A J | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Notion Press | EAN 9798907635739 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Two thousand years ago, Tamil poets sorted the world into five landscapes: hills, forest, river plain, shore, and the parched land that has no place of its own. A flower or a bird in a poem told listeners where they stood, what season it was and what the lovers were feeling.Dr Aran Castro A J, a geologist who grew up on the Kanyakumari coast, reads those poems beside fifty years of satellite images. He finds poets who knew where the hills make the rain, why salt is a harvest of the shore, and how good land turns into palai. He tests the story of Kumari Kandam against the evidence of the seabed and the last Ice Age, follows the 2004 tsunami along his home coast and the 2024 Wayanad landslide down its valley, and shows why Chennai flooded in 2015 and ran short of water in 2019.Every important claim is marked settled, debated or unknown. Every chapter gives the reader a tool to take outside, from a slope check to a two-image test. The book also includes 16 maps and figures, a field card for any ground on Earth, and a guide to free satellite data.A book about reading land, and about what we lose when we stop.…