1000 Things You Should Know About Modern History by John Farndon
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Overview: LONDON-BASED AUTHOR JOHN FARNDON studied earth sciences and English literature at Cambridge University but has since written on just about every topic imaginable. He has written over 300 books, which have sold millions of copies around the world in most major languages and include many best-sellers, such as the award-winning ‘Do Not Open’, which became a cult-hit in the USA as well as featuring on the New York Times and Washington Post best-seller lists. In earlier years, he wrote mostly for children, and has been shortlisted a record four times for the junior Science Book prize. But recently he has been writing for adults too.
Many of his books have on popular science, and in particular earth science and nature, and environmental issues, including’How the Earth Works’, ‘The Wildlife Atlas’, ‘The Dictionary of the Earth’. He was a major contributor to the Smithsonian’s ‘Earth’ and ‘Science’ encyclopedias His ‘Practical Encyclopedia of Rocks and Minerals’ (not as dry as it sounds!) has recently been one of the top 15 selling books for Scientific American. The ‘Atlas of Oceans, his big book on endangered life in the oceans, for Yale in the USA (A&C Black in the UK and Australian Geographic in Australia) garnered glowing reports prepublication from major figures in the USA such as the Cousteaus, Carl Safina, and Harm de Blij.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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