The Complete Guide to Rocks and Minerals
Subtitle: How to find, identify and collect the world's most fascinating specimens, featuring over 800 stunning photographs and artworks
Publisher: Hermes House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: paperback
ISBN-13: 9781844776726
Copyright date: 2006, 2010
First sentence: Back in the early 19th Century, when the whole idea of rock and mineral collecting was just getting under way, the famous Scottish poet Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) described geologists thus, "Some rin uphill and down dale, knappin' the chucky stones to pieces like sa' many roadmakers run daft. They say it is to see how the warld was made!"