Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making
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‘Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough’s Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox’s Universe’ Guardian
A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet.
With the trademark dramatic storytelling techniques of The Planets and The Universe, Andrew Cohen and Chris Packham narrate the biography of the Earth, revealing the most epic moments from its history, from the first seconds of its existence to the arrival of its most incredible inhabitants, us.
But humans take a back seat for this story as the Earth takes centre stage. We’ll witness those moments where our planet’s future hung in the balance in the face of massive bombardments from space, extreme changes in climate, the collision of whole continents and more, and we’ll tell the story of how Earth’s most incredible creations – life and intelligence – are set to have the same lasting impact on Earth’s story as any meteorite or earthquake.
This is the epic 4 billion year story of the place we call home.
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Additional information
| Publisher | William Collins, Media tie-in edition (20 July 2023) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 256 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0008507201 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0008507206 |
| Dimensions | 24.6 x 2.4 x 28.6 cm |
by Mrs Juliet Greaves
I liked the logic of the script and the amazingly detailed photographs revealing more of Earth’s history than I have ever heard of before. However, although science has discovered a possible origin of life on Earth, we can only realise that the awesome, Creator God at work put the first spark of life into the primitive organisms discovered in very inhospitable places and who continues to reveal the wonders of His creation as we continue to research the history of our planet. This book has to be read slowly in an attempt to absorb and understand the origins and changes that have made our world what it is and what is still an ongoing process of change in every way. Chris Packham and team have superbly put together the best presentation ( in my opinion!) of any literature about “Earth Over 4 Billion Years In The Making”
by Martin McGlone
What an absolutely brilliant book from a brilliant man.
Epic information and pictures.
by iridaceae
I loved the programme, now I’m reading the book which is every bit as entertaining
by Sue
An absolutely beautiful book
by R J S
Excellent tv series accompaniment but marred by poor amazon packing causing some damage to jacket.
by Bun
A great read for anyone interested in the evolution of the Earth – who wouldn’t be it’s where we live – beautiful pictures to go with the writing helps contex – it’s on my favorite books, bookshelf
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by Kevin Herrmann
I was a bit confused watching the TV series as they are showing episodes either backwards or in random order related to earth’s chronology. The book has them in order with extra material putting things in context as well as covering the same topics as the TV series with good text and images. Highly recommended to understand how earth has experienced and survived conditions far outside those produced by global warming… but the consequences could be most life being wiped out and it turning into an inhospitable sauna or iceball for a few 100m years until it recovers itself with the next master species after plankton, plants, dinosaurs and then mankind.