Core Blimey: Geology That Rocks; There's Nothing Dry and Crusty About This Account of the Processes That Formed Earth and Our Relationship with the Planet.

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The pair of bronzed legs on the jacket of this book look, at first glance, like smooth and curved rock formations. The tiny fissures in the skin could be great fractures and the upper leg looms, mountain-like, over the smooth-edged stones below. It's a cheeky play on the "intimate" of the book's subtitle, but has a deeper resonance.

Richard Fortey is senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London and refers to this as an "anti-textbook". It is a solid account of the geological processes that form the Earth as we know it, but it's not purely academic. Someone once said: "Anthropology is philosophy with people in it." Well, this is geology with people in it.

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Core Blimey: Geology That Rocks; There's Nothing Dry and Crusty About This Account of the Processes That Formed Earth and Our Relationship with the Planet.

The author is interested in how the human experience of the Earth complements scientific knowledge of it. It could be an academic trying to understand how a geological formation happened or a purely aesthetic reaction to the fact that i...

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