Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
by Fortey, Richard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good, Not Price Clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0307263614
- ISBN 13
- 9780307263612
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Synopsis
Richard Fortey was a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London until his retirement in 2006. He is the author of several books, including Fossils: The Key to the Past; The Hidden Landscape, which won the Natural World Book of the Year in 1993; Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth; Trilobite!, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Earth: An Intimate History; and Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science from Rockefeller University and the Michael Faraday Prize from the Royal Society. He was president of the Geological Society of London during its bicentennial year in 2007 and is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Oxfordshire.
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- Bookseller
- Hourglass Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016795
- Title
- Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
- Author
- Fortey, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good, Not Price Clipped
- Edition
- American First
- ISBN 10
- 0307263614
- ISBN 13
- 9780307263612
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- Conservation of Species