Richard Fortey

Broschiertes Buch

Survivors

The Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Richard Fortey retired from his position as senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in 2006. He is the author of several books, including 'Fossils: A Key to the Past', 'The Hidden Landscape' which won The Natural World Book of the Year in 1993, 'Life: An Unauthorised Biography', 'Trilobite!' and 'The Earth: An Intimate History'. He has been elected to be President of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins UK / HarperPress
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 033776
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780007209873
• ISBN-10: 0007209878
• Artikelnr.: 34419946

Rezensionen

'I was thrilled by Survivors.... Reading Richard Fortey is always pure pleasure.' Bill Bryson

'Fortey has a unique way with the most humble of lifeforms and an infectious curiosity that can slide into near rapture' Evening Standard

'An epic, globe-circling scientific adventure story ... intriguing. Entertaining, accessible and intensely stimulating - and highly recommended' Sunday Times

'A great story, and no one is better equipped than Fortey to tell it. Excellent natural history' Guardian

'Unequivocally my book of the year, a happy mix of global travel, high art and very low life' Tim Radford, Books of the Year, Guardian

'An elegant celebration' TLS