Richard Fortey

About The Author

Richard Fortey retired from his position as senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in 2006. 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, Life: An Unauthorised Biography, Trilobite! and The Earth: An Intimate History. He has been elected to be President of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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Books by Richard Fortey

Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind

In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms

By Richard Fortey

A magical, deeply informed book that takes us from familiar places into the strange world of fungi.

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