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A Curious Boy

The Making of a Scientist

Richard Fortey
The palaeontologist Richard Fortey looks back on a lifelong fascination for nature, kindled while following his father along a Berkshire stream and fostered by garden-shed experiments and hunts for fungi and fossils. He recalls the financial ruin that overtook his family in his teens and his father’s death in a car crash, before describing his studies at Cambridge and the career that took him from Nevada to the Arctic.
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Product information:
  • Publisher: William Collins
  • Year: 2021
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 348pp
  • Illustrated: Yes
  • Dimensions: 240x160mm
  • ISBN: 9780008323967
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.6kg
Product code:
518294
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