Pebble Spotter''s Guide - National Trust Edition

The perfect stocking filler for beach lovers.
A beautiful little guide to one of life's simple pleasures - pebble spotting. Where science meets mindfulness. Learn to appreciate their beauty, discover the amazing journey that brought them to you, search for the rare ones. Leave no stone unturned.

About the author

Clive Mitchell is the classic British geologist with check shirt and beard, a beer drinker and passionate about rocks. Born in Bristol, he grew up in the village of Congresbury on the northern edge of the Mendips in North Somerset. Family holidays in Cornwall and Devon were spent collecting pebbles on the beach, his first introduction to geology. Scroll forward fifty years, Clive lives with his family in Nottingham and is an industrial minerals geologist at the British Geological Survey. He has been lucky enough to travel all over the planet especially Africa and the Middle East working on mineral resources. Clive is an enthusiastic geoscience communicator and can often be found online, especially on twitter, helping to identify rocks for keen amateur geologists.

Summary

The perfect stocking filler for beach lovers. A beautiful little guide to one of life's simple pleasures – pebble spotting. Where science meets mindfulness. Learn to appreciate their beauty, discover the amazing journey that brought them to you, search for the rare ones. Leave no stone unturned.

Product details

• Authors: Clive Mitchell, Mitchell Clive, National Trust Books
• Publisher: Pavilion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781911657514
• ISBN: 978-1-911657-51-4
• No. of pages: 112
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Travel > Travel guides; NATURE / General, NATURE / Rocks & Minerals, Travel & holiday guides, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, NATURE / Fossils, TRAVEL / Reference, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Family, natural history, Travel guides: holidays with children / family holidays, Travel with children / family holidays, Rocks, minerals & fossils, Travel guides: beaches and coastal areas, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Historical Geology, Rocks, minerals and fossils: general interest, Historical geology and palaeogeology