Earth: An Intimate History - Paperback
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Languages: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
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, whose eruption in Roman times helped spark the science of geology, and ending in a lab in the West of England where mathematical models and lab experiments replace direct observation, Richard Fortey tells us what the present says about ancient geologic processes. He shows how plate tectonics came to rule the geophysical landscape and how the evidence is written in the hills and in the stones. And in the process, he takes us on a wonderful journey around the globe to visit some of the most fascinating and intriguing spots on the planet.
Beginning with Mt. Vesuvius, whose eruption in Roman times helped spark the science of geology, and ending in a lab in the West of England where mathematical models and lab experiments replace direct observation, Richard Fortey tells us what the present says about ancient geologic processes. He shows how plate tectonics came to rule the geophysical landscape and how the evidence is written in the hills and in the stones. And in the process, he takes us on a wonderful journey around the globe to visit some of the most fascinating and intriguing spots on the planet.
Languages: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 Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Bristol in 2002 and is now a Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in London.
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