Reading the Rocks by Brenda Maddox

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily and inevitably of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests yet boosting their numbers expanding their learning and increasing their findings were clergymen academics and women. This lively and eclectic collection of characters brought passion ec