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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. On a beach in Delaware where the horseshoe crab shuffles its way through a violent romance, we catch a glimpse of life 450 million years ago, shortly after it diversified on the ocean floor. Along a stretch of Australian coastline, we bear witness to the sights and sounds that would have greeted a Precambrian dawn. Finally, in the dense rainforests of New Zealand, we marvel at a living fossil which has survived unchanged since before the dissolution of the Gondwana supercontinent. Written with sparkle and gusto, this wonderfully engrossing exploration of the world¿s oldest flora and fauna brilliantly combines the best science writing about the origins of life with an explorer¿s sense of adventure and a poet¿s wonder at the natural world. Zusammenfassung 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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'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
