Richard Fortey: 9 books

Book cover of Dry Storeroom No. 1
by Richard Fortey
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008

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...
Book cover of The Wood for the Trees

The Wood for the Trees

One Man's Long View of Nature

by Richard Fortey
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016

From the author of Earth: An Intimate History, an exuberant "biography" of four acres of woodland, evoking a cosmos of living and inanimate things and imagining its millennia of existence A few years ago, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four acres of woodland in the...
Book cover of Life

Life

A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

by Richard Fortey
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011

By one of Britain's most gifted scientists: a magnificently daring and compulsively readable account of life on Earth (from the "big bang" to the advent of man), based entirely on the most original of all sources--the evidence of fossils. With excitement and driving intelligence, Richard...
Book cover of Earth

Earth

An Intimate History

by Richard Fortey
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009

In Earth, the acclaimed author of Trilobite! and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth’s physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us.   Beginning with Mt. Vesuvius, whose eruption in Roman times helped spark the science of geology,...
Book cover of Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (Text Only)
by Richard Fortey
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010

This edition does not include illustrations. ‘Dry Store Room No. 1’ is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination. Behind the public façade...
Book cover of The Hidden Landscape

The Hidden Landscape

A Journey into the Geological Past

by Richard Fortey
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010

'A very well written book about geology and geological history' Sir David Attenborough, The Times '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...
Book cover of Trilobite

Trilobite

Eyewitness to Evolution

by Richard Fortey
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010

With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures. Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred...
Book cover of Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms

The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

by Richard Fortey
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012

From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms...
Book cover of Lower Ordovician trilobites of the Kirtonryggen Formation, Spitsbergen
by Richard A. Fortey, David L. Bruton
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

This monograph describes early Ordovician (Ibexian:Tremadocian–early Floian) trilobites from Northern Spitsbergen from the section through the Kirtonryggen Formation adjacent to Hinlopen Strait. The Formation is divided into three Members, each with distinct trilobites collectively representing...
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