The Floating Egg
- Published: 30 April 2011
- ISBN: 9781446466025
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 384
The Floating Egg
Episodes in the Making of Geology
Formats & editions
- Published: 30 April 2011
- ISBN: 9781446466025
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 384
A wonderful tome...beautifully structured...utterly fascinating... Reading The Floating Egg is a captivating experience because there is at least one surprise in every chapter... Roger Osborne has combined portions of history, biology, architecture, palaeontology, astronomy - and a large dose of humour - and produced the fascinating story of how geology came to be
The Times
His exploration of geology's Yorkshire roots is infallibly entertaining...A delightful book...quirky and thoroughly Yorkshire, and all the better for that
New Scientist