A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet boosting their numbers, expanding their learning and increasing their findings were clergymen, academics – and women. This lively and eclectic collection of characters brought passion, eccentricity and towering intellect to geology and Brenda Maddox here does them full justice, bringing them to vivid life.
Author Brenda Maddox Published by Bloomsbury ISBN 9781408879559 EAN 9781408879559 Bic Code Cover Paperback
