561637
9780750306867
Continental Drift: Colliding Continents, Converging Cultures is as much an account of the impressions Western culture made on Constantin Roman as a young researcher from behind the Iron Curtain as a personal history of the developing new science of plate tectonics. The book elucidates the author's struggles against a web of bureaucracy to secure his rights in the free world while exploring historical events. A refined observer of the contrast of cultures between East and West, Roman's personal story relates his encounters with eminent scientists, artists, and embassy officials.Roman, Constantin is the author of 'Continental Drift Colliding Continents, Converging Cultures' with ISBN 9780750306867 and ISBN 0750306866.
[read more]