Document Type:
Book
Author/editor:
Tony Garnier
 
Standard: Garnier, Tony [Tony Garnier]
Title:
From God to climate change : the journey of Albert's 30-year mission in China to scientist son Ben's fight with the riddle of the world

Standard:

Date of Publication:
2022
ISBN/ISSN:
9781782229698
Pages:
xiii, 141 p.
Number of illustrations:
illustrazioni
Format :
24 cm
Holdings Information:
Biblioteca della Fondazione Centro culturale valdese - Torre Pellice - TO
Subjects:
Garnier (Family) - History
Garnier, Albert John - Biography
Garnier, Benjamin John - Biography

Table of contents:

- Dedication - Introduction - Prologue Part One: Mission China Part Two: Albert's waldensian ancestry and extended family Part Three: Looking back to look forward

Summary/Notes:

Dalla quarta di copertina: This is my story of my grandfather and father, and the divergent paths they took in respective 30-year-plus careers to influence seemingly unrelated world trends continuing to this day - one to contribute 'body, mind and spirit' to the extraordinary rise of China to became a world power and the other to detail the damage to Earth of human-induced climate change, decades before the rest of the world woke up to it ...