A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters plus a directory of websites

plus a directory of websites and restaurants for those who want to find out more

Familiar favourites– features the 12 night-time creatures that are most likely to inhabit British gardens including bats

Each page introduces a magical moment in nature with poetry and stories

his renowned career as an artist

Woven into accounts of these creatures’ behaviour are informative nuggets such as Cardinal Wolsey's fear of spiders and how flies can solve murders

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters plus a directory of websitesHow well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where youre standing was once cooked under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or rampaged across by fearsome monsters. Come to think of it, probably most or all of the above. Placing twenty first century climate change in deep context, this is an