The Book Prize Index

Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

Martin J. S. Rudwick

In this account of the reconstruction of prehuman geohistory Rudwick takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain's Victorian age chronicling the staggering discoveries made during the period and the efforts made to fit them into an understanding of the world.

ScienceScience · medium confidenceScience81 signalsLlm Classifier: Science -> ScienceGoogle Books: History -> HistoryKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryEnvironment, Conservation & PollutionScience & Discovery

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PROSE Award for Earth and Environmental Sciences2008WinnerOfficial source
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyMajor2008FinalistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Europe45%
    • Britain40%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    65 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 52%.