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Earth the biography review...
Earth: The Biography
Earth the biography ice t
Well, no, not necessarily. This is a gorgeous cover and if you made the assumption, based on this cover, that the book would be filled with beautiful photography and other pretty graphics then you would be quite right. It is.
The text that accompanies the pictures can be a bit hit and miss, but the pictures themselves are a solid 10.
The book (and I assume the TV series) is about Planet Earth. The focus is the geology and geophysics and there are chapters about Impact (Earth’s early formation and asteroid strikes), Heat (volcanic activity), Atmosphere (including weather and climate), Ocean (what it says on the tin), Ice (as in, the ice caps) and Rare Earth (a summing up reflection about how the conditions had to be just right for Earth to exist at all).
So a good, comprehensive selection of topics, right?
There’s a lot in here that’s absolutely fascinating and some things I had never even he