Hailed by The New York Times for writing with wonderful clarity about science .
that effortlessly teaches as it zips along, nationally bestselling author Robert M.
Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet's living and nonliving spheres.
With an astrobiologist's imagination, a historian's perspective, and a naturalist's eye, Hazen calls upon twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists to envision Earth's many iterations in vivid detail--from the mile-high lava tides of its infancy to the early organisms responsible for more than two-thirds of the mineral varieties beneath our feet.
Lucid, controversial, and on the cutting edge of its field, The Story of Earth is popular science of the highest order.
A sweeping rip-roaring yarn of immense scope, from the birth of the elements in the stars to meditations on the future habitability of our world.
-Science A fascinating story.
-Bill Mc Kibben.
Penguin Books The story of earth: the first 4.5 billion years, from stardust to living planet, paperback/robert m. hazen
