Smithsonian Earth

by Michael Allaby, David Burnie, Kim Bryan

In the best-selling tradition of Smithsonian Animal, this extraordinary survey of our planet provides unrivaled insight into the forces and processes that formed our environment and which continue to influence its evolution. With thousands of breathtaking photographs and unique visual catalogues of the features and phenomena that take place on Earth -- such as rocks, minerals, and mountains to tropical rain forests and the different types of clouds -- Earth contains the most up-to-date ideas on how our world works, a compelling review on the health of the planet, and unbelievable images of the world's most stunning features.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Geology, Geography, History

520 pages, Hardcover

First published October 6, 2003

About the author

John Michael Allaby was a British author and actor. He was the Aventis Junior prize-winner.

Reviews

[Artem Gordon]

Learned more from this book than from my EPS course.