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 Hidden Landscape{. A brilliant overview of 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{.