THE GREYWACKE: HOW A PRIEST, A SOLDIER AND A SCHOOLTEACHER UNCOVERED 300 MILLION YEARS OF HISTORY
Written by Nick Davidson
Published by Profile Books
in 2021
ISBN: 9781788163774
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THE GREYWACKE: HOW A PRIEST, A SOLDIER AND A SCHOOLTEACHER UNCOVERED 300 MILLION YEARS OF HISTORY
Written by Nick Davidson.
Stock no. 1830224
1st.
2021.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Nick Davidson follows in the footsteps of Adam Sedgwick, Roderick Murchison and Charles Lapworth, letting us see as if for the first time, some of the most intoxicating scenery in Britain, from the West Country to the Scottish Highlands. Drawing on wonderfully vivid diaries, letters, field notes and contemporary accounts, 'The Greywacke' is a momentous drama of discovery, and an irresistible celebrtion of our wild places. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 280 pages including index. ISBN: 9781788163774. A lovely copy. White pictorial dustwrapper is slightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Erratic Professor Sedgwick
- 2 The Ambitious Mr Murchison
- 3 Trekking through Wales, 1832-3
- 4 A New History: the Cambrian and Silurian, 1834-5
- 5 The Devonian Controversy, 1835-40
- 6 Stumbling on the Permian in Russia, 1840-42
- 7 Siluria v. Cambria, 1841-52
- 8 From Collaboration to Rivalry, 1852-5
- 9 The Highland Controversy: Siluria in Scotland 1855-73
- 10 The Missing Key: Discovery of the Ordovician, 1864-84
- 11 The Final Mystery
- Glossary
- Notes
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Index