Trilobite! by Richard Fortey

Trilobite! by Richard Fortey

In Richard Forteys capable hands the humble grey trilobite has been transformed into the E.T. of the Lower Palaeozoic a remarkable and fascinating book. SIMON WINCHESTER

‘Astonishing… A delightful book, mixed autobiography, philosophy and palaeontology, which illuminates understanding of that critical time in the history of the Earth after the explosion of multicellular life between five and six hundred million years agoThere is nothing here to intimidate the non-scientist. It is as good for reading on the beach as anywhere else… We may be special in our own eyes, but in longevity the trilobites knock us into one of their beautiful conical hats’
Financial Times

‘Suffused with the experience and affection of a lifetime spent with these common and attractive fossils… A gripping, splendid book’
New Scientist

‘Delightful and beautifully written, Fortey has an eye for the world about him that would be envied by some travel writers… interesting and impassioned’
Literary Review

‘Fortey has turned his considerable skills to bringing the human dances with trilobites before our eyes… wonderful. His reputation as a first-rate natural history writer will only be enhanced by this volume’
TLS

‘Vivid, poetic, highly focussed and uncompromising’
Spectator

‘A splendid book written with so much verge and depth’
Sunday Telegraph

‘[Trilobites!] needs that exclamation point to shout that it should be read by everybody, whether you know what a trilobite is or not… This is the way science should be written: so engagingly that it makes you forget that you’re actually learning something (actually, you’re learning a lot), and carrying you swiftly from page to page so that before you know if, you’ve let the kettle boil over and you’re at the end… If I had five thousand words I couldn’t do Trilobite! justice. There is just no way to condense Fortey’s glittering book so filled with insight, science, history, charm and wit… you must read it!’
Times

Richard Fortey spent his working life in palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, specialising in trilobites and becoming a world expert. He was elected President of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Literature. He has received the Frink Medal, the Michael Faraday Prize and the Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing, as well as the silver medal of the Zoological Society for science communication. He is the writer of eight previous science and nature books, including two Sunday Times bestsellers, all of which are still in print. He has presented many television programmes across the BBC and other channels.

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ISBN 13	9780006551386
ISBN 10	0006551386
Title	Trilobite!
Author	Richard Fortey
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2001-03-05
Number of pages	256
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