Life A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

"[This book] is capacious, jammed with marvelous treasures, and thoroughly Victorian in its wide-eyed wonder at the diversity and prodigiousness of life....The story of life has been told many times before, but seldom with such wit and grace. Fortey is a gifted stylist who spices his narrative with personal experiences, historical anecdotes, and illuminating asides on the practice of science."Fortey, Richard is the author of 'Life A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth', published 1999 under ISBN 9780375702617 and ISBN 037570261X.