A Brief History of Earth, Andrew H. Knoll
A Brief History of Earth, Andrew H. Knoll
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A Brief History of Earth
Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

Author: Andrew H. Knoll

Narrator: Tom Parks

Unabridged: 4 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/27/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard’s acclaimed geologist.“A sublime chronicle of our planet."" –Booklist, STARRED reviewOdds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of the above. The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we’ve been and where we’re going.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Andrew H. Knoll

Andrew H. Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard University. His honors include the International Prize for Biology, the Charles Doolittle Walcott and the Mary Clark Thompson Medals of the National Academy of Sciences, the Paleontological Society Medal, and the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London. For nearly two decades he served on the science team for NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission. Knoll is also the author of Life on a Young Planet, for which he received the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science.

Reviews

Goodreads review by JD on March 21, 2023

Very comfy science read but can someone please let this man and his editor and his publisher know that HG Wells did not write Journey to the Center of the Earth edit: hooray for the updated paperback!......more

Goodreads review by Jason on April 30, 2021

This was a nice, breezy tour of everything from the formation of the earth, its early geologic history, to the emergence of life, the transformation of the atmosphere, mass extinctions, animals, and humans. It begins and ends with a plea on climate change and the environment. All of it felt up-to-da......more

Goodreads review by Kuszma on November 18, 2023

- Szevasz, Mars! - Szasz, Szaturnusz! Rég nem ütköztünk, mizu? - Semmi extra. Sétáltatom a holdjaimat, dögunalom. Veled mi van? Jó színben vagy. - Köszi. Megvagyok. De figyu, a Földdel találkoztál mostanában? - Á, vagy négymilliárd éve nem láttam. Mi van vele? - Ne tudd meg. Elkapott valamit. - Basszus. I......more

Goodreads review by Robyn on May 16, 2021

Deep earth history! Really liked reading this for more information on topics including plate tectonics and the oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere. Very cool dive into flora and fauna of early seas, and then onto land. And neat explanations of volcanism and glaciers, how this can change world-wide clim......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on December 13, 2022

I had previously read Andrew Knoll’s Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth, and enjoyed it, and I liked this one as well. The book is popular science, and there is no math or physics to be found, which limits the depths to which the book can describe events, but......more

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