A Brief History of Earth. Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters Books about Astronomy Features• Fireball in the desert

Features• Fireball in the desert by Grant Salmond• In the heart of nowhere by Naomi Miles• Black-soil dinosaurs by David Elliott• Diving for fossils by Prof Julien Louys• A century of Rhoetosaurus by Dr Andrew Rozefelds

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A Brief History of Earth. Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters Books about Astronomy Features• Fireball in the desertAcclaimed Harvard geologist Andrew Knoll delivers a sweeping and definitive new narrative history of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4. 6 billion year history and placing our current environmental crisis in deep context. The story of our planetary home and the organisms spread across its surface is far grander and more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. More than four