by Ted Nield (Author)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 08 May 2009
ISBN 10: 0674032454
ISBN 13: 9780674032453
Book Overview: Ted Nield tells the fascinating story of how the world has been made - and re-made - through billions of years of geological time. Geology underpins everything, yet the history of the continents on which we live has remained almost neglected. Nield has put this right with his imaginative and dynamic account of the movements of plates, and the assembly of the familiar world from an unfamiliar past. -- Richard Fortey, author of Earth: An Intimate History 'The four dimensional complexities of our happy little planet - earth's immeasurable surprise - are made elegantly accessible by Ted Nield in this truly exceptional book. At least until the next major discovery it deserves to become the standard work, ideal for students of the subject, and hugely enjoyable to those for whom the world remains an unfathomable enigma. -- Simon Winchester