Unearthing the Underworld

Today's the day ........................ to tempt

When I posted my blip the other day about Will's special bottle of whisky, I omitted to say that the friend and fellow geology student mentioned, went on to have a long and distinguished career as an eminent palaeontologist.

We have always kept in touch with Ken and his wife Sue - even though they have spent a large part of their working lives in Australia - which is where they still live.  But now and then, they do return to the UK and we are able to catch up on the multitude of things that they are involved with.  Ken is the author of many books on palaeontology and evolution, including one called 'Dragon's Teeth and Thunderstones: The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils'.  

Today, his latest one arrived in the post - 'Unearthing the Underworld' - and I can't wait to read it.  I'll leave you with a few words of what it's all about, just in case you might be tempted too ........................!



'Unearthing the Underworld' is a history of the Earth as told through rocks - the secret-keepers of past environments, changing climates and the pulse of life over billions of years.  Even the most ordinary-looking stone can tell us much about the history of this planet, opening vistas of ancient lands of ice, raging floods, strange, unbreathable atmospheres and prehistoric worlds teeming with life.