Books about Geologists

The Map That Changed the World

William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

By: Simon Winchester
Narrated by: Simon Winchester
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery... Read more

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In In a Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer.... Read more

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The Story of Earth

The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet

By: Robert M Hazen
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Earth evolves. From first atom to molecule, mineral to magma, granite crust to single cell to verdant living landscape, ours is a planet constantly in flux. In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national bestselling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and... Read more

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Earthquake Storms

The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault

By: John Dvorak
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

The lives of millions will be changed after it breaks, and yet so few people understand it, or even realize it runs through their backyard. Dvorak reveals the San Andreas Fault's fascinating history—and its volatile future.It is a prominent geological feature that is almost impossible to see unless you know where to look. Hundreds of thousands... Read more

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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

A New History of a Lost World

By: Steve Brusatte
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. ""THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY.""  — Scientific AmericanThe dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs... Read more

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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks

Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them

By: Donald R. Prothero
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In twenty-five chapters Donald R. Prothero recounts the scientific detective work that shaped our understanding of geology, from the unearthing of exemplary specimens to tectonic shifts in how we view the inner workings... Read more

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Paleontology

A Brief History of Life

By: Ian Tattersall
Narrated by: Brett Barry
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Ian Tattersall, a highly esteemed figure in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and paleontology, leads a fascinating tour of the history of life and the evolution of human beings.Starting at the very beginning, Tattersall examines patterns of change in the biosphere over time, and the correlations of biological events with physical changes... Read more

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Geology

A Very Short Introduction

By: Jan Zalasiewicz
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

In this Very Short Introduction Jan Zalasiewicz gives a brief introduction to the fascinating field of geology. Describing how the science developed from its early beginnings, he looks at some of the key discoveries that have transformed it, before delving into its various subfields, such as sedimentology, tectonics, and stratigraphy. Analyzing... Read more

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Geology

The Story of Earth

By: Kate Zeigler
Narrated by: Kate Zeigler
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Geology is often thought of as simply the study of rocks. In reality, geology is the study of our planet on all scales, from microscopic to planet-wide, and ranging in time from almost instantaneous events, like earthquakes, to the glacially slow motion of the tectonic plates. Everything we know about our world from a geologic perspective is... Read more

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