Grown from lectures to the young men of Chester, these chapters teach a townsman to read the rocks around him. Kingsley starts with the soil of the field and the pebbles in the street, then turns to the stones in the wall, the coal in the fire, the lime in the mortar and the slates on the roof.
A witty, inviting introduction to geology from the novelist-naturalist, still a good model of science for everyone. Download the free EPUB.