Richard Fortey

Dry Store Room No. 1

The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

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Produktbeschreibung

â Dry Store Room No. 1â 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 rigour and imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780007209897
• ISBN-10: 0007209894
• Artikelnr.: 23895074

Autorenporträt

Richard Fortey spent his working life in palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, specialising in trilobites and becoming a world expert. He was elected President of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Literature. He has received the Frink Medal, the Michael Faraday Prize and the Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing, as well as the silver medal of the Zoological Society for science communication. He is the writer of eight previous science and nature books, including two Sunday Times bestsellers, all of which are still in print. He has presented many television programmes across the BBC and other channels.