The Complete Illustrated Guide to Minerals, Rocks & Fossils of the World: A Comprehensive Reference to over 700 Minerals, Rocks and Plant and Animal Fossils from Around the Globe and How to Identify Them, With over 2000 Phot

Rocks, minerals and fossils have a timeless fascination. This book's major feature is its two extensive visual directories - one on rocks and minerals and one on fossils - containing over 800 in-depth specimen profiles. Each profile features a superb color photograph for easy identification. Handy information boxes give facts and figures such as type and location, and detailed artworks and reconstructions show the structure-type of rocks, and how each fossil originally looked.

John Farndon studied Earth Science at Cambridge University, UK. Since then he has written a host of books and articles on a wide range of science subjects and has been shortlisted three times for the COPUS Science Book Prize, for books such as How the Earth Works (Dorling Kindersley) and The Book of the Brain (Hodder). His specialty remains Earth Science, and he is the author of the Dictionary of the Earth (Dorling Kindersley), Rocks and Crystals (Sterling), Rocks and Minerals (Benchmark Books) and e-Guides Rock and Mineral (Dorling Kindersley).
Steve Parker is a highly experienced author, editor and consultant specializing in information books on the natural world, biology, technology and general sciences. Steve has a First Class Honors BSc in Zoology and is a Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. He has worked on the staff of London's Natural History Museum, and also at leading book publishers. He has written more than 200 books and edited or consulted on many other titles, from small, light-hearted projects to encyclopedias and multi-volume series, for a wide range of international pulishers. He also appears on television and radio and regularly presents talks, workshops and other events for schools, libraries, clubs and organizations.