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What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day
Christopher Lloyd
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Description for What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day
Paperback. How old is the universe? How are humans related to a sponge? Where did most of the world's water come from? How much would a complete T Rex skeleton cost? Where did the Himalayas come from? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 189 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1214. The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day. 416 pages. How old is the universe? How are humans related to a sponge? Where did most of the world's water come from? How much would a complete T Rex skeleton cost? Where did the Himalayas come from? Which came first, the chicken or the egg?. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HBG. Dimension: 245 x 189 x 30. Weight: 1188.
In What on Earth Happened?, Christopher Lloyd tells our story from the very beginning of time to the present day, taking giant narrative leaps across millennia and continents. Along the way, he explains exactly how Muslim conquest gave Spain its paella, how the Earth's collision with another young planet created the moon, how dragonflies the size of seagulls emerged out of the prehistoric waters, and how the Big Bang can be detected in your television.
Accessible and endlessly entertaining, this massive book draws on disciplines as wide-ranging as astrophysics and anthropology and will appeal to experts, amateur enthusiasts ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408834831
SKU
V9781408834831
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-6
About Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Lloyd graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1991 with two scholarships and a double first-class degree in History. He then became a graduate trainee journalist on The Sunday Times newspaper and was trained at the City University where he gained a diploma in newspaper journalism. In 1993, Lloyd was appointed The Sunday Times Innovation Editor and won the ... Read more
Reviews for What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day
‘Compelling ... remarkably far-reaching and even-handed'
Sunday Times
‘An ambitious history of the planet from the Big Bang to the present day'
Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
Sunday Times
‘An ambitious history of the planet from the Big Bang to the present day'
Daily Telegraph Books of the Year