Книга: Richard A. Fortey «The Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological Past»

The Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological Past

Производитель: "Неизвестный"

`I travelled to Haverfordwest to get to the past. From Paddington Station a Great Western locomotive took me on a journey westwards from London further and further back into geological time, from the age of mammals to the age of trilobites... Under the River Severn and into Wales, I was back before the time of the dinosaurs, to a time when Wales steamed and sweated with the humid heat of moss-laden and boggy forests in coal-swamps, where dragonflies the size of hawks flitted in the mist; and then on back still further in time, so far back that life had not yet slithered or crawled upon the land from its aqueous nursery.` So begins this enthralling exploration of time and place in which Richard Fortey peels away the top layer of the land to reveal the hidden landscape - the rocks which contain the story of distant events, which dictate not only the personality of the landscape, but the nature of the soil, the plants that grow in it and the regional characteristics of the buildings. We... ISBN:9781847920713

Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2009)

ISBN: 9781847920713

Richard A. Fortey

Richard Alan Fortey (* 1946 in London) ist ein britischer Paläontologe. Er veröffentlichte eine Reihe erfolgreicher Bücher und beschrieb Dutzende Arten.

Bereits mit 14 Jahren fand Fortey seinen ersten Trilobiten. Er ist am Londoner Natural History Museum tätig. Forteys The Hidden Landscape wurde im Jahr 1993 als Natural World Book of the Year ausgezeichnet. Fortey ist seit 1997 Mitglied der Royal Society. 2006 wurde ihm die Linné-Medaille der Linnean Society of London verliehen. Für das Jahr 2007 wurde er zum Präsidenten der Geological Society of London gewählt.

Werk (Auswahl)

  • Leben: eine Biographie, die ersten vier Milliarden Jahre (1997, deutsch 2002) ISBN 3-423-33080-5
  • Trilobiten! (2000) ISBN 3-423-34111-4
  • Der bewegte Planet (2004, deutsch 2005) ISBN 3-8274-1585-3

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