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Earth: An Intimate History

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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard ForteyPublish date:2005-11-08Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375706202ISBN-10:375706208UPC:9780375706202Book Category:Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Earth Sciences, Historical GeographyBook Topic:Geology, Seismology & VolcanismSize:7.98 x 5.32 x 0.97 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC22G952G1

Earth: An Intimate History

The acclaimed author of Trilobite! and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth's physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us. - "Absorbing.... Cinematic.... The ultimate travel book, a guidebook that should be read by every person who wants to really know and understand the place we live on." --The New York Times

Beginning with Mt. Vesuvius,...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375706202ISBN-10:375706208UPC:9780375706202Book Category:Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Earth Sciences, Historical GeographyBook Topic:Geology, Seismology & VolcanismSize:7.98 x 5.32 x 0.97 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC22G952G1
RICHARD FORTEY is a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. Life was short-listed for the Rh(TM)ne-Poulenc Prize in 1998, Trilobite! was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2001, and The Hidden Landscape was awarded the Natural World Book of the Year in 1993. He was awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing by Rockefeller University in 2004. He was Collier...
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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