A Short History of Planet Earth
Subtitle: Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice (Wiley Popular Series)
Publisher: Wiley
Published: March 30, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780471197034
First sentence: IN THE MIDDLE of the seventeenth century, James Ussher, a widely respected scholar and prelate of Anglican Church in Ireland and England, calculated that the earth was created in the year 4004 B.C.