Ted Nield: 2 books
Underlands
A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Not so long ago, our roads, buildings, gravestones and monuments were built from local rock, our cities were powered by coal from Welsh mines, and our lamps were lit with paraffin from Scottish shale. We live among the remnants of those times but for the most part our mines are gone, our buildings...
Falling Sky
The Science and History of Meteorites and Why We Should Learn to Love Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Did an enormous collision in the Asteroid Belt, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter, bombard Earth with meteorites 470 million years ago? Astonishing new research suggests it did, and a revolutionary theory is emerging that this bombardment resulted in the single greatest increase in biological...