SURVIVORS - THE ANIMALS AND PLANTS THAT TIME LEFT BEHIND

with Richard Fortey

When?

Monday 17 October 2011, 19.00

Where?

Austin Pearce Lecture Theatre 1

Open to:

Public, Staff, Students

Speaker:

Richard Fortey

Admission price:

£7, £4 students

Admission information:

Tickets are available from the Guildford Book Festival Box Offices & website. 01483 444789 / 444334

Life on Earth is far older – and odder – than many of us realise. Richard Fortey traces this history not through fossil records, but in the living stories of organisms that have survived nearly unchanged for hundreds of millions of years and whose existence today affords us tantalising glimpses of landscapes long vanished.

A former senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum, Fortey was elected President of the Geological Society, London for its bicentennial year of 2007, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the author of several books, including Fossils: A Key to the Past, The Hidden Landscape, which won The Natural World Book of the Year in 1993, Life: An Unauthorised Biography, Trilobite and The Earth: An Intimate History. Sunday Times bestsellers The Earth and Life were shortlisted for the Aventis (Rhône-Poulenc) Prize for Science and Trilobite was shortlisted for the
Samuel Johnson Prize.

for more information and to book ticket, visit the Guildford Book Festival website