by Richard Fortey
TITLE: The Earth: An Intimate History AUTHOR: Richard Fortey DATE PUBLISHED: 2005 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-00-655137-9 ____________________________ Blurb: "This is the life story of our planet - told by one of our most brilliant science writers. With Richard Fortey as our g...
Part travelogue, part history of geological thought, part geology explanation. I wonder if he was trying to appeal to the non-geologist and demonstrate how the landscape forms a part of the work of the geologist. I think he was successful, but I often found the florid landscape descriptions distra...
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