Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood
By John Soennichsen
ISBN: 1-57061-505-5
Hardcover; 320 pages; 8.6 x 5.9 x 1 inches
A fascinating tale of scientific discovery that bucks the trend of mainstream thinking, Bretz’s Flood tells how an iconoclastic geologist persevered to unravel one of the great mysteries of the western landscape.
The land between Idaho and the Cascade Mountains is characterized by gullies, coulees, and deserts—in geologic terms, it is a wholly unique place on the earth. Legendary geologist J Harlan Bretz was the first to explore the area, starting in the 1920s. This dramatic book tells the story of this scientific maverick—how he came to study the region, his radical theory that a flood of biblical proportions created it, and how a campaign by the mainstream geologic community tried to derail him for pursuing an idea that satellite photos would confirm decades later.
Praise for Bretz’s Flood
“John Soennichsen puts a face on the Northwest’s geologic Darwin, painting J Harlen Bretz as a character dogged enough to do the detective work, stubborn enough to fight the establishment for decades, and visionary enough to see the landscape as it was truly formed.”
– Jack Nisbet, author of Sources of the River
$23.95
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