Oliver Morton is an award-winning freelance science journalist and has worked for the Economist, Wired, New Yorker, Newsweek International, New Scientist, National Geographic Nature, Science, American Scholar, Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. He has worked as an environmental and health campaigner, and to top it all has an asteroid named after him!He is the author of Mapping Mars (2002) and Eating the Sun (2007), both Fourth Estate titles.Oliver Morton is married and lives in Greenwich.
Latest from Oliver Morton
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EATING THE SUN: How Plants Power the Planet [ePub edition]
‘Eating the Sun’ is the story of the discovery of a miracle: the source of life itself. From the intricacies of its molecular processes to the beauty of the nature that it supports, ‘Eating the Sun’ is a wondering tribute to the extraordinary process that has allowed plants to power the earth for billions of years.
Publication date: UK 7th Oct 2010
EATING THE SUN: How Plants Power the Planet
‘Eating the Sun’ is the story of the discovery of a miracle: the source of life itself. From the intricacies of its molecular processes to the beauty of the nature that it supports, ‘Eating the Sun’ is a wondering tribute to the extraordinary process that has allowed plants to power the earth for billions of years.
Publication date: UK 6th Aug 2009
MAPPING MARS: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World
A narrative history of the men and women who have explored Mars and mapped its surface from afar, and in so doing conditioned our understanding of our nearest planetary neighbour.
Publication date: UK 2nd Jun 2003