by Ryan a. Smith (Author)
How well do you know the ground that you are standing on?It's likely that the area in which you are now cooking under a sea of roiling lava, being crushed by a massive sheet of ice, being rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or possibly being choked by poisonous gases, drowned beneath the ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or being roamed by terrifying monsters. Highly or even all of the aforementioned is most likely.
The tale of our home planet and the creatures who inhabit its surface is more stunning than any Hollywood film and has enough narrative twists to compete with the most popular thriller. But it has only been lately that we have started to put the whole puzzle together into a unified story. Prof. Ryan A. Smith, a famous geologist, provides a thorough but understandable history of Earth based on his decades of field study and current knowledge of cutting-edge science
The book highlights the whole of history of life on earth, it tells a brief history of the world and a brief history of human kind.