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A Curious Boy by Richard Fortey
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
What makes a scientist? In a charming memoir, beloved and brilliant scientist Richard Fortey offers a tour of the natural world in all its joys, puzzles and curiosities. In this memoir, Richard Fortey - a palaeontologist and natural historian - tells the story of how as a young boy he became fascinated ...Show more
A Curious Boy - The Making of a Scientist by Richard Fortey
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades ... The unforgotten boy: that is what makes this a book a revelation' ADAM NICOLSON 'Wonderful, absolutely beguiling ... I learnt a lot and really loved it' RICHARD HOLMES 'Gloriously evocative' DAILY MAIL What makes a scie ...Show more
Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey
35.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
A remarkable behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary people, meticulous research, and driving passions that make London's Natural History Museum one of the world's greatest institutions. In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Richard Fortey takes his readers to a place where only a few privileged ...Show more
Survivors - The Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind by Richard Fortey
24.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures that have survived from earlier times. In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning science writer Richard Fortey chronicles life's history not through the fossil record, but thr ...Show more
Survivors : The Animals and Plants that Time Has left Behind by Richard Fortey
59.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
The history of life on Earth is far older - and far odder - than many of us realise. In SURVIVORS, acclaimed author Richard Fortey traces this history not through fossil records, but in the living stories of organisms that have survived nearly unchanged for hundreds of millions of years and whose existe ...Show more
The Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey
30.99 NZD
Category: Science
The paperback of the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals how the earth became the shape it is today. This book will change the way you see the world - permanently.The face of the earth, criss-crossed by chains of mountains like the scars of old wounds, has changed constantly over billions of years. Its ...Show more
The Hidden Landscape by Richard Fortey
47.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
'I travelled to Haverfordwest to get to the past. From Paddington Station a Great Western locomotive took me on a journey westwards from London further and further back into geological time, from the age of mammals to the age of trilobites...Under the River Severn and into Wales, I was back before the t ...Show more
The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood by Richard A. Fortey
25.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient history of the countryside to tell the full story of the British landscape. 'The woods are the great beauty of this country. ...Show more
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