Hailed by The New York Times for writing "with wonderful clarity about
science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along," nationally
bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to
Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet's living and
nonliving spheres. With an astrobiologist's imagination, a historian's
perspective, and a naturalist's eye, Hazen calls upon
twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and
enabled scientists to envision Earth's many iterations in vivid
detail--from the mile-high lava tides of its infancy to the early
organisms responsible for more than two-thirds of the mineral varieties
beneath our feet. Lucid, controversial, and on the cutting edge of its
field, The Story of Earth is popular science of the highest order.
A sweeping rip-roaring yarn of immense scope, from the birth of the
elements in the stars to meditations on the future habitability of our
world. -Science
A fascinating story. -Bill McKibben