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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: The Whispers of Rock by and read by Dr. Anjana Khatwa
Description: A geologist’s revelatory invitation to discover how our planet’s seemingly inert bones pulse with unexpected vitality
If you listen, can you hear the stones speak? The question seems absurd. After all, rocks are lifeless, inert, and silent.
In The Whispers of Rock, earth scientist Anjana Khatwa asks us to think again and listen to their stories. Boldly alternating between modern science and ancient wisdom, Khatwa takes us on an exhilarating journey through deep time, from origins of the green pounamu that courses down New Zealand rivers to the wonder of the bluestone megaliths of Stonehenge, from the tuff-hewn chur...