Marvels and Mysteries of The World Around Us

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STRANGEST ADVENTURE STORIES EVER TOLD! Not even the most daring adventurers or the most intrepid explorers ever brought back tales as mystifying, awesome or thrilling as those events that happened, and are happening, in the world around us! Like chilling mystery tales? Consider what horrible, cataclysmic event happened ten thousand years ago that caused huge mammoths to freeze to death so rapidly they still had food in their mouths! And how does a mini-glacier—several stories high, still icy, still frozen—happen to exist close to the equator, right in the heart of Africa? And why did cavemen-artists hide their drawings from view in almost inaccessible caves deep in the earth? Like thrilling adventures? Dive down, down, down, seven miles below the sea and explore the mysterious ocean floor! Discover Antarctic glaciers—in the Sahara Desert! Escape the deathtrap of the ages—quicksand! Pan for gold, drill for oil, mine diamonds! Do all this in a book filled with more drama and intrigue than you'll read in any novel or see in any movie: *Marvels and Mysteries of the World Around Us*, your passport to explore our world as it was and as it is today! Never before has the story of our world, from the beginning of its existence to right now, been presented as an exciting adventure. But now Reader's Digest editors have taken the fascinating accounts of the experts, added to them some of the most spectacular color photography ever reproduced anywhere, and assembled it all together in a beautiful most readable volume. Here are some of the chapters contained in this exciting book: Earth's Ancient Drama. Creatures of the Ages. Man's Ancestors. Cataclysms from Below. Ice on the March. Monuments to Time. Nature's Last Frontiers. Miracles of Water. Surprises in Stone and Sand. The Restless Oceans. Man and the Sea. The Airy Domain. Strange Phenomena. What Makes Weather? Earth's Crust. Do you and your family know: How waves can become huge—and so dangerous? Why volcanoes erupt? What are earthquakes? What makes tornadoes and hurricanes? What cataclysms formed the Earth? Why the Earth has mountains? What pollutants threaten our oceans in catastrophic ways? Why the ocean's bottoms are the next great frontier? What forces threaten the ecology of the Arctic regions? How life began on Earth? All these questions are answered for you in one of the most fascinating, readable, picture-filled volumes ever published by Reader's Digest.

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