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She is the wife of British civil servant Richard Hooper and mother of film director Tom Hooper. After seeing a 2007 reading of an unproduced play, she told her son she thought he should consider pursuing it for a film adaptation; the project became his Academy Award -winning film, The King's Speech .
Meredith Hooper has 96 books on Goodreads with 2644 ratings. Meredith Hooper’s most popular book is The Pebble in my Pocket: A History of Our Earth.
Pick up a pebble and find out where it came from with this beautifully illustrated book which traces the journey a pebble takes. From the moment the Earth first formed, to the moment you pick it up and put it in your pocket.
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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.
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Meredith Hooper chats about her new book, The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica. She discusses research that shows how climate change in Antarctica has led to a shift of penguin species distributions.
9 ott 2015 · This book tells the story of a pebble, from its origins in a fiery volcano 480 million years ago to a busy, modern landscape. Readers follow the processes of rock formation and erosion that create new pebbles all over the world.
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While the well known dramas of the South Polar race are in movies and books, Meredith Hooper tells the almost unknown tale of these extraordinary men of Scott’s team who didn’t go to the Pole but explored and survived for over a year on a diet of only Weddell seal and penguin.
