Richard Fortey

33 books

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Lewis Thomas, Richard Gregory, Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, J.B.S. Haldane, George Gaylord Simpson, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Jonathan Kingdon, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Matt Ridley, Edward O. Wilson, Ronald A. Fisher, Robert Trivers, Loren Eiseley, Alister Hardy, Steven Pinker, David Lack, Jacob Bronowski, Freeman Dyson, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Fred Hoyle, Peter Atkins, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, James Watson, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Mark Ridley, Lewis Wolpert, Colin Blakemore, John Maynard Smith, John Tyler Bonner, Steve Jones, Richard Fortey, George C. Williams, Max F. Perutz, Martin J. Rees, Jared Diamond, Oliver Sacks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Dawkins, P.B. Medawar, George Gamow, Rachel Carson, Helena Cronin, C.P. Snow, Donald C. Johanson, James Hopwood Jeans, Barbara Gamow, Nicholas Humphrey

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Lewis Thomas, Richard Gregory, Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, J.B.S. Haldane, George Gaylord Simpson, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Jonathan Kingdon, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Matt Ridley, Edward O. Wilson, Ronald A. Fisher, Robert Trivers, Loren Eiseley, Alister Hardy, Steven Pinker, David Lack, Jacob Bronowski, Freeman Dyson, Maitland Armstrong Edey, Fred Hoyle, Peter Atkins, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, James Watson, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard E. Leakey, Roger Lewin, Mark Ridley, Lewis Wolpert, Colin Blakemore, John Maynard Smith, John Tyler Bonner, Steve Jones, Richard Fortey, George C. Williams, Max F. Perutz, Martin J. Rees, Jared Diamond, Oliver Sacks, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Dawkins, P.B. Medawar, George Gamow, Rachel Carson, Helena Cronin, C.P. Snow, Donald C. Johanson, James Hopwood Jeans, Barbara Gamow, Nicholas Humphrey

419 pages • 2008

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Survivors: The Animals and Plants that Time has Left Behind by Richard Fortey

Survivors: The Animals and Plants that Time has Left Behind

Richard Fortey

352 pages • digital • 2011

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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey

Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

Richard Fortey

284 pages • 2000

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Visions of a Vanished World: The Extraordinary Fossils of the Hunsrück Slate by Derek E.G. Briggs, Jes Rust, Gabriele Kühl, Christoph Bartels

Visions of a Vanished World: The Extraordinary Fossils of the Hunsrück Slate

Derek E.G. Briggs, Jes Rust, Gabriele Kühl, Christoph Bartels

128 pages • 2012

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The Wood for the Trees: One Man's Long View of Nature by Richard Fortey

The Wood for the Trees: One Man's Long View of Nature

Richard Fortey

320 pages • 2016

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The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood by Richard Fortey

The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood

Richard Fortey

320 pages • 2016

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Beatrix Potter: DRAWN TO NATURE by Annemarie Bilclough, Annemarie Bilclough, Richard Fortey, Sara Glenn

Beatrix Potter: DRAWN TO NATURE

Annemarie Bilclough, Annemarie Bilclough, Richard Fortey, Sara Glenn

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Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature by Liz Hunter MacFarlane, Annemarie Bilclough, Sarah Glenn, Richard Fortey, Emma Laws

Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature

Liz Hunter MacFarlane, Annemarie Bilclough, Sarah Glenn, Richard Fortey, Emma Laws

216 pages • hardcover

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Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms by Richard Fortey

Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms

Richard Fortey

336 pages • hardcover

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A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Fortey

A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist

Richard Fortey

338 pages • paperback • 2021

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