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Notes from Deep Time

A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds

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Notes from Deep Time

By: Helen Gordon
Narrated by: Sarah Cullum
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From the secret fossils of London to the three-billion-year-old rocks of the Scottish Highlands, and from state-of-the-art Californian laboratories to one of the world's most dangerous volcanic complexes hidden beneath the green hills of western Naples, set out on an adventure to those parts of the world where the Earth's life-story is written into the landscape.

Helen Gordon turns a novelist's eye on the extraordinary scientists who are piecing together this planetary drama. She gets to grips with the theory that explains how it all works - plate tectonics, a breakthrough as significant in its way as evolution or quantum mechanics, but much younger than either, and still with many secrets to reveal. And she looks to the future of our world, with or without us.

©2021 Helen Gordon (P)2021 W F Howes Biological Sciences Earth Sciences Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Physics Science Natural History Paleontology Highlander

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Excellent and fascinating! A very enjoyable book that I enjoyed from beginning to end and a very clear and pleasant narration. I loved the quirky diversions into the lives of some of the people who unraveled the mysteries of geology and deep time.

Fascinating Tales of Deep Time

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I would not have cared if the book had been read in American English or British English, but the mis-pronunciations made me think the narrator couldn’t speak either

Good book mangled

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The content delves interestingly into the history of geology and our understanding of deep time. The reading is marred by too many grating mispronunciations of both technical and everyday words, which must also be attributed to poor editorial oversight. To do justice to this work, it should be re-recorded.

Interesting material, poor reading

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Difficult to follow with many mispronounced words and pacing poor with gaps in incorrect places and missing from correct places. Performer obviously with little or no knowledge of Geology (subject of book).

Could be much better, probably a good book to read.

Disappointing performance many mispronouncments!

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Really enjoyed this.if you have a interest in geology it’s worth a listen and go out and see what you can find .

A fantastic journey

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