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Richard A. Fortey
What makes a scientist? In a charming memoir, beloved and brilliant scientist Richard Fortey offers a tour of the natural world in all its joys, puzzles and curiosities.
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Richard Fortey
'A very enjoyable book that brilliantly blends science, insight and passion' TRISTAN GOOLEY
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The paperback of the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals how the earth became the shape it is today. This book will change the way you see the world - permanently.
Andy Secher
Andy Secher-one of the most prolific trilobite collectors in the world-takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening journey to the distant epoch when these ancient arthropods swarmed through the seas.
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From the author of Earth: An Intimate History, an exuberant biography of four acres of woodland, evoking a cosmos of living and inanimate things and imagining its millennia of existence
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With Trilobite, Fortey–paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life –offers a marvelously written and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures. of photos. 40 illustrations in text.
The face of the earth, crisscrossed by chains of mountains, has changed and changed again over billions of years. In this book Fortey shows how human culture and natural history–even…
Guides readers throughout the British Isles. This work states that Britain was once divided into two parts separated by an ocean, that Scottish malt whisky, Harris tweed, slate roofs and…
A history of prehistory by the author of Life: An Unauthorized Biography.
An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures that have survived from earlier times.
‘Dry Store Room No. 1’ is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic…
‘Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades … The unforgotten boy: that is what makes this a book a revelation’ ADAM NICOLSON
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Originally published in Great Britain under the title Survivors.
Exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth
In an elegant and illuminating narrative, the acclaimed author of Life, Trilobite!, and Earth acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research, and driving passions that helped to create…
From its beginnings on the still-forming planet to the recent emergence of Homo sapiens, one of the world’s leading paleontologists narrates how and why life on Earth developed as it…
The world-renowned paleontologist Richard Fortey provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of fossils and their use in reconstructing the history of life on Earth. Extensively illustrated in full color…
1 Auf und Ab 2 Inseln 3 Ozeane und Kontinente 4 Alpen 5 Platten 6 Alte Gebirge 7 Der Dollar 8 Heisse Gesteine 9 Stoerungslinien 10 Der Anfang der Dinge…
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The arthropods contain more species than any other animal group, but the evolutionary pathways which led to their current diversity are still an issue of controversy.
Richard A. Fortey,David L. Bruton
This monograph describes early Ordovician (Ibexian:Tremadocian early Floian) trilobites from Northern Spitsbergen from the section through the Kirtonryggen Formation adjacent to Hinlopen Strait.
Annemarie Bilclough
Published to accompany the exhibition Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from February 12, 2022 to January 8, 2023.
Generations of children have been captivated by the exploits of Jemima Puddleduck, Squirrel Nutkin, Peter Rabbit and the host of other characters conjured up by Beatrix Potter. Packed with original…
