Under a Metal Sky
A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder
$44.26
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
29 April 2025
Summary
The discovery of minerals beneath our feet has transformed our species. Ochre first prompted humans to express themselves in art; tin and copper helped instigate the Bronze Age and later the Industrial Revolution; silver kick-started the engines of global trade. Each of these substances generated a leap forward in technology, each one opened the imagination a little further - and each one brought with it a cache of unexpected dangers.
Under A Metal Sky begins and ends in Philip Marsde…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781783789627 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178378962X |
| Author: | Philip Marsden |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 29 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 652g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
A luminously rich exploration of the mineral wonderland beneath our feet. Imaginatively travelled and beautiful written – Colin Thubron
A book of breathtaking wealth and depth, as passionate as it is clear-eyed (and funny). Marsden takes the history of metals and, from it, creates a dazzling history of humanity and our relationship with this planet. It can only be alchemy – Tom Bullough
Philip Marsden
Philip Marsden is the award-winning author of a number of works of travel writing, fiction and non-fiction, including The Bronski House, The Spirit-Wrestlers and The Levelling Sea, and for Granta: Rising Ground and The Summer Isles. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and his work has been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Cornwall.
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