Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet (38 page)

Granta Publications, 12 Addison Avenue, London W11 4QR

 

First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2007
This ebook edition published by Granta Books, 2012

 

Copyright © Ted Nield, 2007

 

‘Different living is not living in different places’ by Stephen Spender from
New Collected Poems
© 2004, reprinted by kind permission of the Estate of Stephen Spender; ‘Humming-Bird’ by D. H. Lawrence, reproduced by kind permission of Pollinger Limited and the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli; ‘On a Raised Beach’ by Hugh MacDiarmid from
Complete Poems
, reprinted by kind permission of Carcanet Press Limited;
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
© 1979 Douglas Adams, reproduced by kind permission of Pan Macmillan UK.

 

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