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Richard Fortey was a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. His previous books include the critically acclaimed Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, short-listed for the Rhône-Poulenc Prize in 1998; Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution, short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2001; and The Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological Past, which won the Natural World Book of the Year in 1993. He was Collier Professor in the Public Understanding of Science and Technology at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol in 2002. In 2003... Read More
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Dry Storeroom No. 1
The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $17.95
Aremarkable behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary people, meticulous research, and driving passions that make London’s Natural History Museum one of the world’s greatest institutions.
In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Richard Fortey takes his readers to a place where only a few privileged scientists, curators, and research specialists have been—the hallowed halls... Read more >
The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $17.95
Aremarkable behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary people, meticulous research, and driving passions that make London’s Natural History Museum one of the world’s greatest institutions.
In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Richard Fortey takes his readers to a place where only a few privileged scientists, curators, and research specialists have been—the hallowed halls... Read more >
Dry Storeroom No. 1
The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $27.50
Richard Fortey—one of the world’s most gifted natural scientists and acclaimed author of Life, Trilobite and Earth—describes this splendid new book as a museum of the mind. But it is, as well, a perfect behind-the-scenes guide to a legendary place. Within its pages, London’s Natural History Museum, a home of treasures—plants... Read more >
The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $27.50
Richard Fortey—one of the world’s most gifted natural scientists and acclaimed author of Life, Trilobite and Earth—describes this splendid new book as a museum of the mind. But it is, as well, a perfect behind-the-scenes guide to a legendary place. Within its pages, London’s Natural History Museum, a home of treasures—plants... Read more >
Dry Storeroom No. 1
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $17.95
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Written by Richard Fortey
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $17.95
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Earth
An Intimate History
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $20.00
From the acclaimed author of Life and Trilobite!, a fascinating geological exploration of the earth’s distant history as revealed by its natural wonders.
The face of the earth, crisscrossed by chains of mountains like the scars of old wounds, has changed and changed again over billions of years, and the testament of... Read more >
An Intimate History
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $20.00
From the acclaimed author of Life and Trilobite!, a fascinating geological exploration of the earth’s distant history as revealed by its natural wonders.
The face of the earth, crisscrossed by chains of mountains like the scars of old wounds, has changed and changed again over billions of years, and the testament of... Read more >
Earth
An Intimate History
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: eBook, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $20.00
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An Intimate History
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: eBook, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $20.00
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Life
A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 7, 1999
Price: $17.00
From its origins on the still-forming planet to the recent emergence of Homo Sapiens—Fortey's account of how and why life developed as it did is informed with a depth of knowledge and enthusiasm that not only educates but excites the imagination. Interlacing the tale of his own adventures in the field... Read more >
A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 7, 1999
Price: $17.00
From its origins on the still-forming planet to the recent emergence of Homo Sapiens—Fortey's account of how and why life developed as it did is informed with a depth of knowledge and enthusiasm that not only educates but excites the imagination. Interlacing the tale of his own adventures in the field... Read more >
Trilobite
Eyewitness to Evolution
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $15.00
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.
Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago. As bewilderingly diverse then as the beetle... Read more >
Eyewitness to Evolution
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $15.00
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.
Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago. As bewilderingly diverse then as the beetle... Read more >
