The Guardian Bookshop makes over 180,000 books available with up to 40% discount, as well as highlighting some of our favourite publications in each genre.
Find out more.
Trade paperback edition of this incisive and scholarly exploration of the natural history of the first 4,000,000,000 years of life on and in the earth, from the author of "The the complexity of the history of life on Earth, and the complexity of how it has come to be understood. "Fortey writes beautifully, and this is a wonderful biography of rock and life" "The Observer".
Synopsis
A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science writers.
