Andrew Goudie DSc, Emeritus Professor of Geography and former Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford, Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, and the former Master of St. Cross College, is a recipient of a Royal Medal from the Royal Geographical Society, the Mungo Park Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and the Farouk El-Baz Award of the Geological Society of America. He has been Chair of the British Geomorphological Research Group, President of the Geographical Association, and President of the International Association of Geomorphologists. He is the author of Discovering Landscape in England and Wales (1985), The Landforms of England and Wales (1990), Great Warm Deserts of the World (2002), The Human Impact (eighth edition, 2018), Great Desert Explorers (2016), and Landscapes and Landforms of England and Wales (2020). He is a former Trustee of the Jurassic Coast Trust.

Denys Brunsden OBE, DSc, FKC, Emeritus Professor, King's College, London,

is a geomorphologist specialising in landslides and coastal erosion, the founder of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, and a former President of the British Society of Geomorphology, the Geographical Association, and the International Association of Geomorphologists. He was also the first Chairman of the Dorset Coast Forum. He proposed the Dorset and East Devon Coast for World Heritage Site designation and worked with Malcolm Turnbull, Tim Badman, David Andrew, Andy Price, and many others to achieve this and to write the scientific case. He co-authored with Tim Badman The Official Guide to the Jurassic Coast, Dorset and East Devon's World Heritage Coast: A Walk Through Time (2003). In 2010, Denys was awarded the R.H. Worth Prize by the Geological Society for this work. He had previously received the William Smith and Glossop Medal awards from the Society. Denys was a Trustee of the Jurassic Coast Trust until 2017, when he became a Patron.

• Chapter 1. Introduction


• Chapter 2. The earliest investigators


• William Hobbs


• Robert Hooke


• John Woodward


• James Parkinson


• Chapter 3. The fossil collectors


• Mary Anning


• Elizabeth Philpot


• Richard Owen


• Samuel Beckles


• Peter Brodie


• Thomas Hawkins


• Robert Damon


• Chapter 4. Establishment of geology at the universities and the Golden Age


• William Buckland


• Mary Buckland


• William Conybeare


• Henry De la Beche


• Chapter 5. The geological map


• Thomas Webster


• Edward Forbes


• Henry William Bristow


• Alfred Jukes-Browne


• Clement Reid


• Horace Woodward


• William Ussher


• Aubrey Strahan


• William Joscelyn Arkell


• Chapter 6. Gifted stratigraphers and palaeontologists


• William Henry Fitton


• Joseph Prestwich


• Osmond Fisher


• Edward Day


• Sydney Savory Buckman


• William Dickson Lang


• Leonard Spath


• Muriel Arber


• Michael House


• Chapter 7. Some other stars


• Eleanor Coade


• Peter Orlando Hutchinson


• John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell


• Vaughan Cornish


• John Coode


• John Green


• Ernest Burton


• Mary Stopes


• Alan Carr


• Denys Brunsden - an appreciation


• Conclusion


• Bibliography and references


• Glossary


• Index