SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE PRIZE 2022
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.
| ISBN: | 9781788163781 |
| Publication date: | 5th May 2022 |
| Author: | Nick Davidson |
| Publisher: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Primary Genre | History |
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE PRIZE 2022 Adam Sedgwick was a priest and scholar. Roderick Murchison was a retired soldier.
The Greywacke features in the following genres: History, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Historical geology and palaeogeology, History and Archaeology, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Earth sciences, Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
Paperback, Hardback. £10.79, down from the £11.99 cover price. In Stock.
The Greywacke was written by Nick Davidson and published by Profile Books Ltd
The Greywacke has 288 pages
£10.79, reduced from £11.99. In Stock.
