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THE
WORLD
WE
LIVE IN »a,»
Here is an unparalleled physical history of
our world—from its very beginning to its
probable end — that took over two years
to present in the pages of LIFE. Planning
and advance research alone took two years.
It required calling the best authorities in
the U. S. into repeated consultation on every
phase it required expeditions to places
seldom visited it required specially com-
missioned artists to reproduce scenes never
before looked upon by man. Lincoln
(Continued on Back Flap)
Barnett, one of the most lucid of contem-
porary scientific writers wrote the text.
In this book you will see how our planet
was formed, how the seas were born and
life emerged to populate the land. You will
see how life developed and now abounds in
every region of the earth's varied surface.
Here are five billion years of natural
history in a treasury of magnificent paint-
ings, photographs and drawings.
For the intellectually curious, or for those...
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Fülszöveg
THE
WORLD
WE
LIVE IN »a,»
Here is an unparalleled physical history of
our world—from its very beginning to its
probable end — that took over two years
to present in the pages of LIFE. Planning
and advance research alone took two years.
It required calling the best authorities in
the U. S. into repeated consultation on every
phase it required expeditions to places
seldom visited it required specially com-
missioned artists to reproduce scenes never
before looked upon by man. Lincoln
(Continued on Back Flap)
Barnett, one of the most lucid of contem-
porary scientific writers wrote the text.
In this book you will see how our planet
was formed, how the seas were born and
life emerged to populate the land. You will
see how life developed and now abounds in
every region of the earth's varied surface.
Here are five billion years of natural
history in a treasury of magnificent paint-
ings, photographs and drawings.
For the intellectually curious, or for those
to whom the whole world is full of wonder,
this extraordinarily beautiful book will pro-
vide an exciting and eloquent account of
how the earth, the life upon it and the air
around it came to be.
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