num_pages: 272
description: Four and a half billion years long, Earth's history is the fascinating, magnificent product of creation, transformation, evolution, and extinction. A Short History of Planet Earth chronicles this complex life story in an accessible and thoroughly engaging single volume that charts the geologic and biological life of our dynamic planet. A Short History of Planet Earth, the ideal, concise introduction to earth and life sciences, includes a handy glossary of geologic terms, and forty information-packed illustrations.
language: English
title: A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice
titlecomplete: A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice (Wiley Popular Scienc)
genres: Geology, History, Science, Nonfiction, Evolution
ratings_count: 66
publisher: Trade Paper Press