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Notes from Deep Time - A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds

English · Hardback

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About the author

Helen Gordon's books include a novel, Landfall (Penguin, 2011), and Being A Writer, a compendium written with Travis Elborough (Francis Lincoln, 2017). She is married to an earth scientist and lives mostly in the Holocene.

Summary

'Astounding ... To call this a "history" does not do justice to Helen Gordon's ambition'
Simon Ings, Daily Telegraph

'Awe-inspiring ... She has imbued geological tales with a beauty and humanity'
Shaoni Bhattacharya-Woodward, Mail on Sunday

The story of the Earth is written into our landscape: it's there in the curves of hills, the colours of stone, surprising eruptions of vegetation. Wanting a fresh perspective on her own life, the writer Helen Gordon set out to read that epic narrative.

Her odyssey takes her from the secret fossils of London to the 3-billion-year-old rocks of the Scottish Highlands, and from a state-of-the-art earthquake monitoring system in California to one of the world's most dangerous volcanic complexes in Naples. At every step, she finds that the apparently solid ground beneath our feet isn't quite as it seems.

Product details

Authors Helen Gordon
Publisher Profile Books
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 02.07.2020
 
EAN 9781788161633
ISBN 978-1-78816-163-3
No. of pages 320
Dimensions 162 mm x 240 mm x 34 mm
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology

NATURE / Rocks & Minerals, SCIENCE / Natural History, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Historical Geology, Rocks, minerals and fossils: general interest

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