Earth Time: Exploring the Deep Past from Victorian England to the Grand Canyon

Walk from London to North Wales, as a certain William Smith did, or from the top of the Grand Canyon to the river bed and you will walk through history from the present time to the deepest and most secret time in the history of the Earth.

In this fascinating tale Douglas Palmer explores mankind’s quest to understand the history of the planet on which we live. As nineteenth century explorers delved deeper into the hidden parts of the visible world, so scientists of the time explored the hidden depths of the Earth’s past. Douglas Palmer reveals the story of humankind’s search for a better understanding of the Earth’s story from the biblical view through to the most up-to-date rock sampling methods available to science today.