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Meredith Hooper is an Australian historian and writer. [1] Early life. She was born and raised in Adelaide, Australia. [2] . Hooper graduated in history from the University of Adelaide, [3] then studied imperial history at Oxford. [2] Career.
Meredith Hooper has 96 books on Goodreads with 2655 ratings. Meredith Hooper’s most popular book is The Pebble in my Pocket: A History of Our Earth.
Meredith Hooper was born in Australia. An Antarctic specialist, she has made several research trips to the continent. In 2000 she was awarded the Antarctica Medal by the US Congress. Her books for Frances Lincoln include The Pebble in my Pocket, which is the only children's book ever to be shortlisted for the Dingle History of Science Book Award.
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Apr 1, 1996 · I have just read The Pebble in my Pocket by Meredith Hooper. The book introduces the geological history of the Earth by following the story of a pebble, from its origins in a volcano 480 million years ago, to its place in a busy modern landscape.
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Meredith Hooper is an historian by training and the author of many books, ranging in subject from Antarctica to aviation, from the history of water to the history of inventions. Hooper, born in 1939, graduated in history from the University of Adelaide, then studied imperial history at Oxford.
Nov 8, 2007 · In the summer of 2001-2, writer Meredith Hooper witnessed unprecedented amounts of snow and rain wreak havoc on a colony of Adélie’s penguins in Antarctica. Scientists working on climate variability on the Antarctic Peninsula accept that the extreme weather is evidence of the planet's warming.
Meredith Hooper is a UK Trustee of the Brussels-based International Polar Foundation, a Trustee of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust and served as a juror on the British Antarctic Survey’s Artists and Writers Programme. She was awarded the Antarctica Service Medal by the US Congress in 2000.
