Dry Storeroom No. 1
The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $17.95
A remarkable 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...
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British Fossils
Written by Peter Doyle
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $12.95
The fossil-bearing rocks of the British Isles represent life from the last 2,900 million years and the UK is seen by many as the cradle of modern geology. Using the geological map of Britain, expert palaeontologist Peter Doyle offers a comprehensive guide to fossils in the UK, plotting the main fossil...
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Dry Storeroom No. 1
The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
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...
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Dry Storeroom No. 1
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $17.95
A remarkable 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...
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Earth
An Intimate History
Written by Richard Fortey
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $20.00
In
Earth, the acclaimed author of
Trilobite! and
Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth’s physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us.
Beginning with Mt. Vesuvius, whose eruption in Roman times helped spark the science of geology, and ending...
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Lost in My Own Backyard
A Walk in Yellowstone National Park
Written by Tim Cahill
Read by Michael Prichard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 5, 2004
Price: $9.95
“Let’s get lost together . . . ”
Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his—and America’s—favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world’s first national park. Cahill has been “puttering around in the park” for a quarter of a century, slowly covering its vast scope and exploring...
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Land's End
A Walk in Provincetown
Written by Michael Cunningham
Read by Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 9, 2004
Price: $12.95
In this celebration of one of America's oldest towns (incorporated in 1720), Michael Cunningham, author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning
The Hours, brings us Provincetown, one of the most idiosyncratic and extraordinary towns in the United States, perched on the sandy tip at the end of Cape Cod.
Provincetown, eccentric, physically remote...
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