Brenda Maddox

Reading the Rocks

How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 298769
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9781408879559
• ISBN-10: 1408879557
• Artikelnr.: 50597133

Autorenporträt

Brenda Maddox

Rezensionen

Reading the Rocks, the latest book by the frighteningly prolific biographer Brenda Maddox, relates how a handful of British men - and one woman - blasted out the intellectual cutting through which the theory of natural selection would follow . Maddox, whose previous biographical scalps include George Eliot, DH Lawrence and Rosalind Franklin, has a fine eye for idiosyncrasy, the primacy of money and the sheer squawking rivalrousness of the academic world' Oliver Moody The Times