Life: an Unauthorized Biography

ISBN-13: 9780006384205 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 416 str.

Richard Fortey

Opis

A guide to the Earth from the very earliest signs of life on the rims of volcanoes, to the first appearance of man. The book ranges across many scientific disciplines, analyzing their arguments and findings, and showing readers whose the discoveries have been and whose the arguments.

Recenzje

'This is not a book for people who like science books. It is a book for people who love books, and life... [Fortey] has written a wonderful book.'
Tim Radford, Guardian

'Read this book because it is, indeed, the best natural history of the first four billion years of life on earth.'
John Gribbin, Sunday Times

'Fortey writes beautifully and this is a wonderful biography of rock and life... He has restored palaeontology to its rightful place in the pantheon.'
Lewis Wolpert, Observer

'Richard Fortey is a scientist... but his big, rich history of four billion years of evolution is written with an artist's zest for life and language... In his last chapter Fortey quotes Goethe:
"Zum Erstaunen bin ich da - I am here to wonder."
Richard Fortey has the rare gift of making his readers share that wonder. Anyone who wants to understand how we came to be here on earth, 4,000,000,000 years after life began, should read this sparkling book.'
Maggie Gere, Daily Telegraph

'The tale of life needs constant retelling. Thank some happy accident of history that we have Fortey to tell it to us anew.'
Ted Nield, New Scientist

O autorze

Richard Fortey ist Leitender Paläontologe am Natural History Museum in London und seit 1997 Mitglied der Royal Society. Sein Buch "The Hidden Landscape" wurde 1993 als "Natural World Book of the Year" ausgezeichnet.