Richard Fortey

Survivors (eBook, ePUB)

The Animals and Plants that Time has Left Behind (Text Only)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This ebook edition does not include illustrations.

An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe, in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures which have survived from earlier times and whose stories speak to us of seminal events in the history of life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007441389
• Artikelnr.: 39951548

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.

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