Story of Earth

Hailed by <i>The New York Times </i>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 <i>The Story of Earth</i> is popular science of the highest order. <p/>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. -<i>Science</i> <p/>A fascinating story. -Bill McKibben