 | The Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £3.22 Fortey delves into craters and faultlines, climbs the Alps, and encompasses the whole of Earth history in this dazzling voyage of telluric discovery.
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 | Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
Buy new: £11.24 / Used from: £8.92 The omninbus edition of McPhee's four great geological essays, from 'Assembling California' to 'Basin and Range', Annals of the Former world is a tour-de-force of geological writing.
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 | Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £1.68 Not only is this a fascinating analysis of a 'road not taken' in the history of life on Earth, it is also a vivid account of the working life of a paleobiologist. So many bones, so much time. . .
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 | The Rough Guide to the Earth (Rough Guides Reference Titles) by Martin Ince
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £3.02 A well-organised, clearly written, and up-to-date primer on just about everything to do with Earth science and history.
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 | Earth: The Power of the Planet by Iain Stewart
Buy new: £13.48 / Used from: £10.00 The book of the TV series, this is an exciting and well-written account of the history of our ancient planet, 'stirred from below and bombarded from above', as Stewart memorably phrases it.
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 | Krakatau: The Destruction and Reassembly of an Island Ecosystem (Krakatoa) by I Thornton
Buy new: £21.95 / Used from: £8.00 An account of the rapid repopulation of an entire ecosystem - the new-risen 'Child of Krakatau' in the Sunda Strait - which demonstrates just how deep the connections are between geology and biology.
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 | Tales of the Earth: Paroxysms and Perturbations of the Blue Planet by Charles Brand Officer
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £1.38 A dizzying survey of some of the key events in our planet's tempestuous past; it covers the science brilliantly, and is written with an engaging mixture of humour and insight.
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 | Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface by David Standish
Buy used from: £6.75 A cultural history of subterranean imaginings, this offers a series of fantastical alternatives to our scientific understanding of the realms beneath our feet.
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 | Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages by D Macdougall
Buy new: £8.22 / Used from: £9.32 A history of glaciation, and of ideas about glaciation, this offers a memorable vision of climatic and geological change extending back billions of years into the past.
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 | Supercontinent: 10 Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet by Ted Nield
Buy used from: £0.01 A close-up look at the Earth's crust, as its tectonic plates dance their ancient and awesome quadrille, driven by thermal currents from below.
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 | Going to Extremes by Nick Middleton
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Middleton visits the hottest, wettest, coldest and driest inhabited spots on Earth, creating a wonderful travel book as well as a glimpse into the climatic workings of our world.
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 | Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Canongate Myths) by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 Winterson retells the great Earth myth: Atlas shouldering the weight of the world forever, in punishment for defying the gods - like him, I couldn't put it down. . .
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