A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice (Wiley Popular Science)
By J. D. MacDougall.
Description
"A splendid introduction to geology and paleontology for the lay reader. To compress Earth's history into a single, lucidly written volume is a major achievement."--Publishers Weekly, starred review."Few people have both the knowledge and the writing ability to capture such a long and varied history in a compelling manner. In A Short History of Planet Earth, J.D. Macdougal demonstrates that he is one of the few."--Earth.This exhilarating survey of the four and half billion years of Earth's history charts both the geological and biological history of the planet....
ISBN(s)
0471148059, 9780471148050
