Richard Fortey

Gebundenes Buch

Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind

In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms

Beschreibung

â A very enjoyable book that brilliantly blends science, insight and passionâ TRISTAN GOOLEY

Autor

Professor Richard Fortey is a celebrated scientist, writer and television presenter with a long career in palaeontology at the Natural History Museum in London. He studied Geology at Cambridge University and since 1997, has been a member of the Royal Society. He is one of the few scientists who is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has published numerous books: The Hidden Landscape won the Natural World Book of the Year (1993), Life was short-listed for the Rhône-Poulenc Prize (1998) and Trilobite! was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize (2001). He was elected President of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year (2007) and was awarded the Geological Society Lyell Medal for significant contribution to geology. In 2023, he was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours List. He lives in Oxfordshire where over four decades he has indulged his passion for the study of fungi.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780008639686
• ISBN-10: 000863968X
• Artikelnr.: 70140656