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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...
Four billion years of life on Earth in a single volume. Obviously a lot of things are going to get glossed over, but it was an interesting and informative read. I think I got a bit tired of reading it the way I was, one chapter at a time, so I started to find it dry and got more annoyed when scienti...
TITLE: Life: An Unauthorised Biography [A Natural History of the First 4 000 000 000 Years of Life on Earth] AUTHOR: Richard Fortey PUBLICATION DATE: 1998 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-00-638420-5 _________________________________ Professor Fortey takes t...
Dry Store Room No. 1 was a kind of miscellaneous repository, a place of institutional amnesia. It was rumoured that it was also the site of trysts, although love in the shadow of the sunfish must have been needy rather than romantic. Certainly, it was a place unlikely to be disturbed until it was di...
Trilobite! (with the exclamation mark) is Richard Fortey's passionate account of trilobites - their physiology, their crystal eyes, legs, development, evolution and history. This book grew out of the author's love of trilobites. His stated aim is to invest the trilobites with all the glamour of th...
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