The Earth: An Intimate History
Description:
Amazon Review
The Earth: An Intimate History is prize-winning science writer Richard Fortey's latest book and an ambitious attempt to tell the geological story of planet Earth for the general reader. Several centuries and the combined efforts of thousands of professional geologists have been required to make any real sense of the Earth's structure and its 4.5 billion-year history. That Fortey manages to turn the most important aspects of all this into an enjoyable narrative for the general reader is a considerable achievement. The book is a sort of guided tour around a number of geological sites with which Fortey is personally
... (more)
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Release date: 7 March 2005
ISBN-10 : 0006551378 | ISBN-13: 9780006551379
Release date: 7 March 2005
ISBN-10 : 0006551378 | ISBN-13: 9780006551379
Tags:
My tags:
Add tags