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Reading the Rocks

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Reading the Rocks

By Brenda Maddox

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A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet boosting their numbers, expanding their learning and increasing their findings were clergymen, academics - and women. This lively and eclectic collection of characters brought passion, eccentricity and towering intell...Show more

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ISBN

9781408879603

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2017

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