The Prospector's Adventures

Want to know how geology opens the heart of the Earth? Curious about the secrets of symbiosis hidden deep within the mines? Follow the protagonist across five continents and discover why children’s voices can be heard reading beneath dinosaur fossils in Africa’s copper-and-cobalt mountains. Geologist Jiang Shan has spent sixty years wielding his hammer. From carving through rock fissures in southwest China to weave a “green armor,” to watching fluorescent moss swim like snake shadows around Thailand’s Naga Tear Pagoda as giant catfish dance to the sound waves; from six-legged crabs dancing with the “Fendouzhe” submersible in the salt-crystal growth rings of Brunei, to the sound of lessons at a community school in the Democratic Republic of the Congo rising above the drilling rigs, he has written an epic of adventure with his own footsteps. In the hardest layers of rock, he finds the gentlest reverence; the deepest veins of ore connect to the farthest reaches of youth. Open this book and join Jiang Shan on an expedition to reconcile humanity with nature. See how he has filled sixty years of mountains and rivers with wonders!