A straightforward introduction to fossils, their study and their use in reconstructing the history of the Earth.
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'An excellent introduction to the subject for anyone who has ever picked up a piece of rock marked with the trace of a long dead creature and wondered how it got there.' --Editor's choice, Good Book Guide
Richard Fortey is a senior palaeontologist at The Natural History Museum, London. He is author of several books including The Hidden Landscape which won the Natural World Book of the Year in 1993, Life:An Unauthorised Biography which was short-listed for the Rhône Poulenc Prize in 1998, and Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution, recently short-listed for one of Britain’s top literary awards, the Samuel Johnson Prize.
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