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    A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist

    Richard A. Fortey

    What makes a scientist? In a charming memoir, beloved and brilliant scientist Richard Fortey offers a tour of the natural world in all its joys, puzzles and curiosities.

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    The Trilobite Collector’s Guide

    Andy Secher

    Andy Secher-one of the most prolific trilobite collectors in the world-takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening journey to the distant epoch when these ancient arthropods swarmed through the seas.

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    The Wood for the Trees: One Man’s Long View of Nature

    Richard Fortey

    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

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    Fossils: The Key to the Past

    Richard Fortey

    The world-renowned paleontologist Richard Fortey provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of fossils and their use in reconstructing the history of life on Earth. Extensively illustrated in full color…

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    Earth: An Intimate History

    Richard Fortey

    The face of the earth, crisscrossed by chains of mountains, has changed and changed again over billions of years. In this book Fortey shows how human culture and natural history–even…

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    Life: an Unauthorized Biography

    Richard Fortey

    Exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth

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    The Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological Past

    Richard Fortey

    Guides readers throughout the British Isles. This work states that Britain was once divided into two parts separated by an ocean, that Scottish malt whisky, Harris tweed, slate roofs and…

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    The Earth: An Intimate History

    Richard Fortey

    The paperback of the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals how the earth became the shape it is today. This book will change the way you see the world - permanently.

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    Trilobite!

    Richard Fortey

    A history of prehistory by the author of Life: An Unauthorized Biography.

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    The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood

    Richard Fortey

    From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient history of the countryside…

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    Survivors: The Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

    Richard Fortey

    An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures that have survived from earlier times.

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    Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

    Richard Fortey

    ‘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…

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    A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist

    Richard Fortey

    ‘Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades … The unforgotten boy: that is what makes this a book a revelation’ ADAM NICOLSON

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    Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

    Richard Fortey

    With Trilobite, Fortey–paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life –offers a marvelously written and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures. of photos. 40 illustrations in text.

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

    Richard Fortey

    From its beginnings on the still-forming planet to the recent emergence of Homo sapiens, one of the world’s leading paleontologists narrates how and why life on Earth developed as it…

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    Arthropod Relationships

    The arthropods contain more species than any other animal group, but the evolutionary pathways which led to their current diversity are still an issue of controversy.

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    Arthropod Relationships

    The arthropods contain more species than any other animal group, but the evolutionary pathways which led to their current diversity are still an issue of controversy.

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    Beatrix Potter

    Generations of children have been captivated by the exploits of Jemima Puddleduck, Squirrel Nutkin, Peter Rabbit and the host of other characters conjured up by Beatrix Potter. Packed with original…

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    Lower Ordovician trilobites of the Kirtonryggen Formation, Spitsbergen

    Richard A. Fortey,David L. Bruton

    This monograph describes early Ordovician (Ibexian:Tremadocian early Floian) trilobites from Northern Spitsbergen from the section through the Kirtonryggen Formation adjacent to Hinlopen Strait.

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    The Wood for the Trees: One Man’s Long View of Nature

    Richard Fortey

    A few years ago, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four acres of woodland in the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire, England. The Wood for the Trees is the joyful, lyrical portrait…

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    The Wood for the Trees: One Man’s Long View of Nature

    Richard Fortey

    A few years ago, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four acres of woodland in the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire, England. The Wood for the Trees is the joyful, lyrical portrait…

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    The Wood for the Trees Lib/E: One Man’s Long View of Nature

    Richard Fortey

    A few years ago, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four acres of woodland in the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire, England. The Wood for the Trees is the joyful, lyrical portrait…

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    Der Bewegte Planet: Eine Geologische Reise Um Die Erde

    Richard Fortey

    1 Auf und Ab 2 Inseln 3 Ozeane und Kontinente 4 Alpen 5 Platten 6 Alte Gebirge 7 Der Dollar 8 Heisse Gesteine 9 Stoerungslinien 10 Der Anfang der Dinge…

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    Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature

    Annemarie Bilclough

    Published to accompany the exhibition Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from February 12, 2022 to January 8, 2023.

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