Notes from Deep Time

Name: Notes from Deep Time
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SKU: 9781788161640
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A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds

By Helen Gordon

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In Notes from Deep Time, Helen Gordon embarks on a journey to explore the fascinating history of our planet from a geological perspective. She weaves together science, travel, and personal reflection, exploring how the Earth's layers have been shaped over billions of years and how they influence the planet today. Through engaging storytelling, Gordon offers insights into the complex and dynamic forces that have sculpted the world around us.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by Earth's geological history and how it shapes our present and future. Through engaging insights and exploration of deep time, it offers a unique perspective on the interconnectedness of nature and life over billions of years.

The Earth writes its own story in the landscape. A novelist sets out on a journey to piece it together.

The Earth writes its own story in the landscape. A novelist sets out on a journey to piece it together

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'Astounding ... To call this a "history" does not do justice to Helen Gordon's ambition' - Simon Ings, Daily Telegraph

The story of the Earth is written into our landscape: it's there in the curves of hills, the colours of stone, surprising eruptions of vegetation. Wanting a fresh perspective on her own life, the writer Helen Gordon set out to read that epic narrative.

Her odyssey takes her from the secret fossils of London to the 3-billion-year-old rocks of the Scottish Highlands, and from a state-of-the-art earthquake monitoring system in California to one of the world's most dangerous volcanic complexes in Naples. At every step, she finds that the apparently solid ground beneath our feet isn't quite as it seems.

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Notes from Deep Time by Helen Gordon is celebrated for its profound exploration and narrative brilliance in tackling geological concepts. Reviewers highlight how the work provides a dizzying yet clarifying tour of geological time, offering insights that seem almost therapeutic. It's praised for its expansive approach, grounding modern existence within the vast context of Earth's deep past and future.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781788161640

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 February 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Profile Books Ltd

Edition: Main

Illustration: integrated

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 260g

Pages: 336

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About the Author

Helen Gordon's books include a novel, Landfall (Penguin, 2011), and Being A Writer, a compendium written with Travis Elborough (Francis Lincoln, 2017). She is married to an earth scientist and lives mostly in the Holocene.

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