Notes from Deep Time (eBook)

A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds

Gordon Helen Gordon (Autor)

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2021
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-504-2 (ISBN)

Infos

'Astounding ... To call this a "e;history"e; does not do justice to Helen Gordon's ambition' Simon Ings, Daily Telegraph 'Awe-inspiring ... She has imbued geological tales with a beauty and humanity' Shaoni Bhattacharya-Woodward, Mail on Sunday The story of the Earth is written into our landscape: it's there in the curves of hills, the colours of stone, surprising eruptions of vegetation. Wanting a fresh perspective on her own life, the writer Helen Gordon set out to read that epic narrative. Her odyssey takes her from the secret fossils of London to the 3-billion-year-old rocks of the Scottish Highlands, and from a state-of-the-art earthquake monitoring system in California to one of the world's most dangerous volcanic complexes in Naples. At every step, she finds that the apparently solid ground beneath our feet isn't quite as it seems.

Rezensionen

Helen Gordon's wonderfully expansive book encompasses a paradoxical fluidity, both tangible and immense, where human witnesses measure out deep time in golden spikes and ammonites, excavating lost seas and saurians for clues as to what we were and who we will be

Sublime ... a fascinating and thrilling descent into time, human in scale but full of moments of vertiginous wonder

A book as multi-layered as the deep-time planet itself

A sparkling book that humanises the pre-human era. In her journey from the Earth's molten Hadean beginnings to our Holocene age, Gordon delivers stratigraphic revelations through the stories of the intriguing individuals who have brought their mysteries to light

If there were ever a good time to think about deep time, it's now ... A whirlwind tour of our planet's deep past and far future ... succeeds in grounding our existence firmly in the context of geological time

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.2.2021
• Zusatzinfo: integrated
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Schlagworte: Anthropocene • anthropocene books • climate change books • Deep Time • Geology • History books • Holocene • Underland
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-504-0 / 1782835040
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-504-2 / 9781782835042