In Search of Tom Slick [electronic resource] : Explorer and Visionary.
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TextPublication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2020]Edition: Revised editionDescription: 1 online resource (210 p.)ISBN: - 1623498724
- 9781623498726
- Slick, Tom, 1916-1962
- Texas Biomedical Research Institute -- Biography
- Southwest Research Institute -- Biography
- Mind Science Foundation (San Antonio, Tex.) -- Biography
- Businessmen -- Texas -- Biography
- Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- Biography
- Explorers -- Texas -- Biography
- Inventors -- Texas -- Biography
- Philanthropists -- Texas -- Biography
- Adventure and adventurers -- Texas -- Biography
- 338.7/6223382092 B 23
- HD9570.S59 C66 2020eb
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface Where No One Else Has Ever Been -- Chapter 1: Ghost Call: April 2001 -- Chapter 2: Missing Links: 1900-1930 -- Chapter 3: Alone: The 1930s -- Chapter 4: Dreaming Big: The 1940s -- Chapter 5: Slick Ideas: 1950-1955 -- Chapter 6: Diamonds and Death: 1954-1956 -- Chapter 7: The Search for the Yeti: 1955-1960 -- Chapter 8: An Open-Door Policy: 1956-1961 -- Chapter 9: Visions of the Future: 1955-1961 -- Chapter 10: The Unending Search: 1962-? -- Epilogue: The Legacy -- Acknowledgments
Appendix 1: Texas Biomedical Research Institute -- Appendix 2: Southwest Research Institute -- Appendix 3: Mind Science Foundation -- Bibliography -- Index
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