Story of Earth The

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 McKibben