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# The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet

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Review: 『地球進化 46億年の物語』 ブルーバックス2014/5/21として翻訳が出版されている． 監修付きの訳本であるが，それほど専門的ではないので…．オリジナルの英語のペンギンブックス版には図が一つもない．訳は本屋で見たところ白黒だがイラスト付きである．それがいいのかどうかはわからない．というのは，GoogleやYouTubeできれいな画像は簡単に確認できし，著者もそう指摘しているからである． 原文は非常に読みやすいので英語の試験などにはもってこいだろう．星が一つ少ないのは，この本で書かれていることはすでにNational Geographicなどで紹介されてしまっていて，いまとなっては新味に欠けるかなというところである．そして，とことん数値がなくいわゆるdescriptiveな説明である．化学式もほとんど登場しない．かなりspeculativeなところが多いので，もっと違う学説もあるはずである．最近では，ダーク・マターが絶滅に関係している，つまり地球内部で反応が活発になり火山活動が盛んになったというような仮説まである．ある意味確証のない仮説に近い言説が，そうでないものと混合されて述べられている． とはいえ，地球とは全球凍結もすれば温暖化もする，プラスのフィードバックのかかりやすいシステムなのだということ，最近の5億年は植物のCO2吸収とO2の放出による生物と地質との共進化のシステムだということ，つまらない10億年といわれた世代も，実際は地質の絶え間ない変動があった興味深い10億年だったということも慧眼の研究者によって明らかにされてきたということ，これらが印象に残った．5億年以前にも生物はいたのだからもっと別のstoryもありうるのではないかとも思う．ともかく化石がないわけだからわからないはずだ．ということは，タイトルとしては，A Storyなのではないかとも思いたくなる．
Review: I could not help myself with the title of my review. This book is actually mostly about rocks. But if you want to write about the history of our planet it will be a history about geology and much less about biology. Professor Hazen has tried to compress 4.5 billion years of history into a book of 300 pages. He has succeeded very well. He has written about our planet going through several stages of development and he manages to explain and link them together so you experience a 4.5 billion fast trip through history. Finding a similar book will not be easy since most books about pre-human history tends to focus on dinosaurs or other biological life in our past. Professor Hazen writes in an easy and clear way. He is interlinking the story with personal memories that helps creating a book that is not some dry academic textbook but instead a book that anyone with an interest in our past could pick up and enjoy. These are no illustrations in the book. It would have helped to have a few so that instead of explaining in text about continental drift you could just show us but in a typical modern way we are instead proposed to check out a Webb-site where we can see this in an animated way. Still if you read in bed those Webb-sites are probably not instantly available. The Book ends with his discussion about our future. It is mostly a very bleak one. I wish he could have been more optimistic but I am afraid he is right. This is a book well worth reading. I recommend it warmly.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #150,567 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #63 in Geology #736 in Astronomy & Space Science #869 in Physics |
| Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (473) |
| Dimensions  | 13.59 x 1.78 x 20.19 cm |
| Edition  | Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 0143123645 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0143123644 |
| Item weight  | 1.05 Kilograms |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 320 pages |
| Publication date  | 30 July 2013 |
| Publisher  | Penguin Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by M***S on 1 March 2015*

『地球進化 46億年の物語』 ブルーバックス2014/5/21として翻訳が出版されている． 監修付きの訳本であるが，それほど専門的ではないので…．オリジナルの英語のペンギンブックス版には図が一つもない．訳は本屋で見たところ白黒だがイラスト付きである．それがいいのかどうかはわからない．というのは，GoogleやYouTubeできれいな画像は簡単に確認できし，著者もそう指摘しているからである． 原文は非常に読みやすいので英語の試験などにはもってこいだろう．星が一つ少ないのは，この本で書かれていることはすでにNational Geographicなどで紹介されてしまっていて，いまとなっては新味に欠けるかなというところである．そして，とことん数値がなくいわゆるdescriptiveな説明である．化学式もほとんど登場しない．かなりspeculativeなところが多いので，もっと違う学説もあるはずである．最近では，ダーク・マターが絶滅に関係している，つまり地球内部で反応が活発になり火山活動が盛んになったというような仮説まである．ある意味確証のない仮説に近い言説が，そうでないものと混合されて述べられている． とはいえ，地球とは全球凍結もすれば温暖化もする，プラスのフィードバックのかかりやすいシステムなのだということ，最近の5億年は植物のCO2吸収とO2の放出による生物と地質との共進化のシステムだということ，つまらない10億年といわれた世代も，実際は地質の絶え間ない変動があった興味深い10億年だったということも慧眼の研究者によって明らかにされてきたということ，これらが印象に残った．5億年以前にも生物はいたのだからもっと別のstoryもありうるのではないかとも思う．ともかく化石がないわけだからわからないはずだ．ということは，タイトルとしては，A Storyなのではないかとも思いたくなる．

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by S***4 on 11 September 2012*

I could not help myself with the title of my review. This book is actually mostly about rocks. But if you want to write about the history of our planet it will be a history about geology and much less about biology. Professor Hazen has tried to compress 4.5 billion years of history into a book of 300 pages. He has succeeded very well. He has written about our planet going through several stages of development and he manages to explain and link them together so you experience a 4.5 billion fast trip through history. Finding a similar book will not be easy since most books about pre-human history tends to focus on dinosaurs or other biological life in our past. Professor Hazen writes in an easy and clear way. He is interlinking the story with personal memories that helps creating a book that is not some dry academic textbook but instead a book that anyone with an interest in our past could pick up and enjoy. These are no illustrations in the book. It would have helped to have a few so that instead of explaining in text about continental drift you could just show us but in a typical modern way we are instead proposed to check out a Webb-site where we can see this in an animated way. Still if you read in bed those Webb-sites are probably not instantly available. The Book ends with his discussion about our future. It is mostly a very bleak one. I wish he could have been more optimistic but I am afraid he is right. This is a book well worth reading. I recommend it warmly.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by J***M on 12 December 2025*

Must read, clear understandable engrossing explanation of Earth's chemical and geological evolution.

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