FREE: How it Works Discovering Prehistory

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A stunning new information-packed series. Clear, authoritative text, specially written by expert authors to explain key topics and enthral young readers. Information is structured to provide both a quick reference tool and an in-depth resource through the use of overviews, fact features and annotated cut-away illustrations and diagrams. Stunning artwork and design create a visually engaging learning experience, aiding understanding and promoting the desire to acquire deeper and wider knowledge. One title in The Young Encyclopedia series. For age 7 and up.

How old is the Earth? When did the dinosaurs disappear? What were the first tropical rain forests like? What was life like for people in the distant past?

In the pages of this book you will lean how evidence is gathered, analyzed and pieced together, so that questions like these can be answered. Fascinating illustrations reveal the work behind excavations and reconstructions and show how secrets from the past can be drawn from rocks and fossils. Lucid text and labels clearly explain the complex methods used by archaeologists, geologists and other scientists in discovering the distant past.

Robert Muir Wood is an international consultant on Earth sciences and has been on many scientific expeditions. He is author of several books, including The Picture Atlas of Prehistoric Life and has been a regular contributor to the New Scientist magazine. In his spare time he enjoys telling stories about prehistoric animals to his three young children.

This ends while I am on vacation so it will ship Monday or Tuesday.