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The Earth : An Intimate History - In Slipcase
by Richard Fortey
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- New Book
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Picton, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Folio Society, London, 2011. Folio. Hardcover. New Book. Richard Fortey spent his working life in palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, specialising in trilobites and becoming a world expert. He was elected President of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Literature. He has received the Frink Medal, the Michael Faraday Prize and the Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing, as well as the silver medal of the Zoological Society for science communication. He is the writer of eight previous science and nature books, including two Sunday Times bestsellers, all of which are still in print. He has presented many television programmes across the BBC and other channels. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 416 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Environment & Ecology; Geology; Inventory No: 51851. .
Synopsis
In Earth, 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.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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Bong Bong Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51851
- Title
- The Earth : An Intimate History - In Slipcase
- Author
- Richard Fortey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New Book
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Folio
- Publisher
- Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- BZDB3 Environment & Ecology; Geology; Unbranded Richard Fortey The Earth : An Intimate History - In Slipcase
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