19th Century history
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Cambrian explosion
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Devonian
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Mountaineering History & Biography
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Nick Davidson
Ordovician
Physical Geography
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Royal Society Science Prize 2022
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Victorian Britain books
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- ISBN 9781788163781
- Weight: 220g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 05 May 2022
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE PRIZE 2022
'A joyful collision of science, history and nature writing' Helen Gordon, author of Notes from Deep Time
Adam Sedgwick was a priest and scholar. Roderick Murchison was a retired soldier. Charles Lapworth was a schoolteacher. It was their personal and intellectual rivalry, pursued on treks through Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, Devon and parts of western Russia, that revealed the narrative structure of the Paleozoic Era, the 300-million-year period during which life on Earth became recognisably itself.
Nick Davidson follows in their footsteps and draws on maps, diaries, letters, field notes and contemporary accounts to bring the ideas and characters alive. But this is more than a history of geology. As we travel through some of the most spectacular scenery in Britain, it's a celebration of the sheer visceral pleasure generations of geologists have found, and continue to find, in noticing the earth beneath our feet.
Nick Davidson is a documentary filmmaker and amateur geologist. He lives in London.
