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King of Siluria

THE STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL

PIONEERS OF GEOLOGY IN THE 19th CENTURY

From joining The Geological Society in 1825, Roderick Impey Murchison became its President only seven years later!  He went about his investigation of older rocks in Wales and Eastern Europe with boundless energy and was the first to differentiate and name the Silurian, Devonian and Permian periods of geological time....more

STRATA

THE REMARKABLE LIFE STORY OF WILLIAM SMITH, THE ‘FATHER OF ENGLISH GEOLOGY’

THE STORY OF AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BLACKSMITH’S SON

WHO TRANSFORMED THE SCIENCE OF GEOLOGY

William Smith was the first man to realise that rock strata extended right across the country – that fossils found in Dorset were the same as those in Yorkshire because the rocks were of the same age....more

WHATEVER WERE YOU THINKING OF, CAPTAIN?

A HANDBOOK FOR AIRLINE PASSENGERS

Captain John L. Morton

This book is aimed at airline passengers who are interested in learning what goes on in front of the Flight Deck door and in what goes through the Captain’s mind as he operates a service.  In this handy volume ‘the interested layman’ is guided through the various aspects of a journey by air....more