Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey

Earth: An Intimate History

Richard Fortey

448 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced

Description

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 time...

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