The Hamlyn Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils

By William B. Hamilton

A detailed and extensively illustrated handbook. The colors, shapes and properties of minerals vary from the bland to the magnificent. Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils is a practical and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0600563944
• ISBN13: 9780600563945
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Hamlyn
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

gems

the book was priced right. it has beautiful pictures and is enjoyable to look at. it is a good reference for rocks

A valuable pocket guide for the amateur geologist and rock hound

I bought this book after having found a borrowed copy of the original (and virtually identical) Philip's version indispensible to me as an amateur trying to teach myself some geology and mineralogy. It holds just about as much as is possible for a book designed to be taken into and used in the field, with a more thorough and well illustrated cover of rocks, minerals and fossils than I would have thought possible in the space. In addition there are excellent brief explanatory sections on such things as crystal systems and rock formation. But the quality I admire most about it is that it is truly international and could be used with equal facility in many countries. It avoids a problem I have found with some other similar texts, which is over-emphasis on examples from the country of origin of the book, reducing apparent relevance and interest to readers elsewhere.