Richard Fortey

The Wood for the Trees (eBook, ePUB)

The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient history of the countryside to tell the full story of the British landscape.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780008104672
• Artikelnr.: 44057810

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.