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Re: Back on Subject DV Area
Posted by Birdman
on 13:28:50 10/30/09
In Reply to:
Re: Back on Subject DV Area posted by wyethia1
I m writing this with the hope that someone will prove me wrong when I say that there is no book or academic work that really describes how the structures in Black Turtle s photograph came about. Not just the building of structures and getting materials up the most difficult places but how the projects were financed, how men came to discover the prospects and the final results of all the enormous effort that must have gone into the mines.
In John McPhee s books the author builds on the works of various experts to construct a large picture of the world around us. In his book, The Control of Nature, for example, he shows in detail how the single raindrop moves a minute amount of earth downhill in a burned over area of a California mountain and how billions of those raindrops can cause mud flows that devastate the land below. He was able to write this explanation of what happens because of detailed studies made by folks before him.
If detailed academic work was (is) available about the structures high on the cliffs of the Panamints possibly some fine author would assemble a book that would inform us today while paying tribute to those who built those structures.
Birdman
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