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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
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One of those great books that I enjoyed reading but will not remember a single thing from. This is nothing to do with Thomas Halliday’s writing. It is everything to do with my inability to hold onto statistics and scientific facts of this kind since A-Level Geography.
informative
slow-paced
Each chapter chiefly describes the ecological environment at a particular place and time, going back in increasing intervals of time to perhaps the earliest records of animal life, with enough other material to give a connected picture of the history of life and the changing planet through the five, or is it six, major extinction events, with some interesting brief asides on the miracle of how we know any of this.
It wasn’t always an easy read. I would have welcomed a lot more illustrations, a lot of passages reminded me of those training exercises where you try to draw a picture from a frantic verbal description, with dubious end results, and I found myself looking up a lot of biological and geological terminology, using an e-reader was a definite advantage.
It wasn’t always an easy read. I would have welcomed a lot more illustrations, a lot of passages reminded me of those training exercises where you try to draw a picture from a frantic verbal description, with dubious end results, and I found myself looking up a lot of biological and geological terminology, using an e-reader was a definite advantage.
Struggled to get through it though no fault of the books. Probably the best introduction and overview to natural history one could ask for. Hannah’s dad was right it does need more drawings!
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relaxing
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informative
inspiring
mysterious
medium-paced
informative
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