258pp, cloth full color, foreword Robert Macfarlane. Includes fifteen sheets of the 1815 geologic strata map as well as tables of strata and fossil. Smith is the 19th century geologist fully responsible for the establishment of geologic timescale, as groundbreaking to geology and mining and mapping and hydrology as computers now are to data. It is a presentation of the earth, itself, in the bones of strata.