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...
I loved this book, but holy crap I can't believe it's taken me this long to read it. I don't think it's ever taken me this long to finish a book. If you love museums, if you love natural history, if you've ever thought the idea of getting lost in the back rooms of a museum sounded like something ...
Two stars for the first half of the book, four stars for the 2nd, so that leaves me at 3 stars for the whole thing.Several of the early essays of this collection focus on the early history of the Royal Society and the philosophy of science. They're very academic, hard to read, and full of RS-relate...
many fascinating stories
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...
Interesting book. I would have liked more biology and less "travelogue", but otherwise ok.
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