Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz
by Mabel L. Robinson
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A children's biography of the nineteenth-century paleontologist and natural scientist Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson. It tells his life story from his boyhood in Switzerland to his professorship at Harvard.Tags
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I do like the idea of a bio of a scientist getting honored, though, instead of just a political leader or warrior-type. Maybe if I'd read this when I was a child, in paper rather than online, I'd have appreciated it more.?á"
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- Original publication date
- 1939
- People/Characters
- Louis Agassiz; Elizabeth Agassiz
- First words
- The sky paled as morning came over the mountains. The velvet dark peaks stretched themselves into the lake until water and earth were one.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And out in the world where the sun still shines, something imperishable which was not there before Louis Agassiz lived in it.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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- 9
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