These are just some of the questions answered in

Christopher Lloyd’s unique volume, which covers 13.7 billion years in a single, sweeping narrative.

 

Drawing on disciplines ranging from astrophysics to zoology, What on Earth Happened? presents the whole history of our planet, and shows how life, the universe and

 EVERYTHING are connected

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Read Christopher Lloyd’s Beagle Blog  re-tracing the first leg of Charles Darwin’s famous Voyage on the H.M.S Beagle, on a replica clipper courtesy of Dutch Television.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8th October, 2009

What on Earth Evolved? 100 Species that Changed the World , the second in the What on Earth? series of books

will be launched in the UK with a lecture by Christopher Lloyd at

The Royal Institution, Piccadilly, London at 7pm. Click here for tickets and details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1st June 2009

What on Earth Happened?...in Brief,

the abridged paperback edition was launched on June 1st, 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“A charming book…. remarkably far-reaching and even-handed”

Ed King, The Sunday Times

 

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“The sort of book an enquiring mind will not want to put down…”

The School Librarian, Winter 2008

“This book should be on every child’s Christmas List..”

Bill Turnbull, BBC Breakfast

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“This engaging history of our planet is ambitious, but Christopher Lloyd pulls it off”

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