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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR008830658
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 7719-9781408879580
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Book Description Condition: VeryGood. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Light wear to dust jacket and to pages. Seller Inventory # 2DFT5Q0000LR
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 6545-9781408879580
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Seller Inventory # 15880467-20
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Seller Inventory # 48736728-20
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Seller Inventory # 025586
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing, xii + 257 pages, illustrated, notes, select bibliography, index. Seller Inventory # 166770
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Impression. Dust jacket complete, unclipped, rubbed area on rear. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. A couple of marks. Plates. 254 pages clean and tight. A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. Some came from the ranks of gentlemen with the wealth to support their interests, yet others were clergymen, academics - and women. This lively and assorted band brought passion, eccentricity and towering intellect to geology. This new science demanded great courage from its followers. In revealing Earth's ancient past, its findings presented a conflict with Genesis: for the rocks and fossils clearly showed that the Earth had not sprung from a creation made in six days as the Bible claimed, but was instead millennia old. Fossils also showed that the changing forms of life advanced steadily in their sophistication; it is no coincidence that Charles Darwin was a keen geologist. Brenda Maddox does full justice to the individual stories of this eclectic group, exploring their triumphs and disappointments. The effect is absorbing, inspiring and strikingly original. The theological, philosophical and scientific debates this first movement provoked were to alter dramatically and irrevocably our understanding of the world. This biography brings that momentous time gloriously to life. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 145024