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Written by
Dr Jackie Stroud
RHS Author and Consultant
Dr Marc Redmile-Gordon
Illustrated by
Wenjia Tang
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Why do we need soil?
Global warming
The stuff of soil
Soil horizons
Soil city
Shoots and roots
Growing food
A worm's work
Decomposing
Dry soil
Soggy soil
Beautiful boglands
Sun, wind, and rain
Written by
Dr Jackie Stroud, Dr Marc Redmile-Gordon
Illustrated by
Wenjia Tang
Editor
Kathleen Teece
Senior Commissioning Designer
Fiona Macdonald
Design Assistant
Katherine Marriott
Managing Editors
Laura Gilbert, Jonathan Melmoth
Managing Art Editor
Diane Peyton Jones
Project Art Editor
Jaileen Kaur
Senior Picture Researcher
Sumedha Chopra
Senior Pre-Producer
Nikoleta Parasaki
Producer
Ena Matagic
Senior DTP Designer
Jagtar Singh
Creative Directors
Helen Senior, Clare Baggaley
Publishing Director
Sarah Larter
RHS Publisher
Rae Spencer-Jones
RHS Editors
Simon Maughan, Guy Barter
RHS Head of Editorial
Chris Young
Awake at night
Fungus kingdom
Wonderful worms
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CONTE
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Marvellous moles
Burrowers
Spineless invertebrates
Ant nations
Tiny life
Microbes in action
All that glitters
Ground around the world
Soil to sand
Moon dust
Can plants grow on Mars?
Be a soil scientist
Looking after soil
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements
First published in Great Britain in 2020
by Dorling Kindersley Limited
80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL
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ISBN: 978-0-2414-1245-9
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