50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: Earth

Everything you need to know about the wonders of our planet in a single volume.

This latest book in Quercus' bestselling 50 Ideas series is a wonderfully accessible overview of the only place we know of in the universe that is capable of sustaining life.

Expert popular science writer Martin Redfern covers all the natural processes of the Earth: climate, ocean currents, air currents, the elements, plate tectonics, fossils, the evolution of life, volcanology, sea levels and the ultimate fate of the Earth.