Which one of these books was not written by Richard Fortey?
a. Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
b. Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life On Earth
c. Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
d. At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
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a. Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
b. Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life On Earth
c. Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
d. At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
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Richard Fortey
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London, England, The United Kingdom
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Science, Nonfiction
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Richard Fortey is a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was Collier Professor in the Public Understanding of Science and Technology at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol in 2002. His books have been widely acclaimed: Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth (Knopf) was short-listed for the Rhône-Poulenc Prize in 1998, and Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Knopf) was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2001. His latest book, Earth: An Intimate History (Knopf, 2004), has been called "dazzling," "remarkable," "splendid," and "important and timely."
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Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey avg rating 3.42 — 93 ratings — published 2008 4 editions |
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey avg rating 4.17 — 60 ratings — published 1997 7 editions |
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Trilobite!: Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey avg rating 3.96 — 50 ratings — published 2000 6 editions |
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Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey avg rating 3.79 — 39 ratings — published 2004 5 editions |
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Hidden Landscape by Richard Fortey avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1994 |
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The Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological Past by Richard Fortey avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010 |
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Fossils: The Key to the Past by Richard Fortey avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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Fossils: The History of Life by Richard Fortey avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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Fossils: The Key to the Past by Richard Fortey avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1991 5 editions |
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The Dinosaur's Alphabet by Richard Fortey avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1990 |
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"You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time."
— Richard Fortey
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"I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums. "
— Richard Fortey (Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum)
— Richard Fortey (Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum)
"Westwards along the basement, I let myself through a heavy door just beyond the dead giraffes. There was a notice on the wall that read "Departmental cock"--I never did find out what that meant. "
— Richard Fortey (Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum)
— Richard Fortey (Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum)
