Download or read book The Norton History of the Environmental Sciences written by Peter J. Bowler and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Norton History of the Environmental Sciences, Peter J. Bowler chronicles humanity's long quest to understand its own origins, brilliantly synthesizing the discoveries in geography, geology, and evolutionary biology that have brought us to our current knowledge of the fragility and connectedness of life on Earth and created the new science of ecology.