Richard Fortey

Survivors

The Animals and Plants that Time has Left Behind

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins UK / HarperPress
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 033776
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780007209873
• ISBN-10: 0007209878
• Artikelnr.: 34419946

Autorenporträt

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.

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