The man-eating predator in the jungles of history and the mind
Month: December 2011
Book review: ‘Parasite Rex’ by Carl Zimmer
Inside the bizarre world of nature’s most dangerous creatures.
Book review: ‘Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow 1796–1861’ by S.M. Walters & E.A. Stow
The biography of John Stephens Henslow, Charles Darwin’s favourite tutor at Cambridge, and an all-round good egg.
Book review: ‘The Flight of the Iguana’ by David Quammen
A sidelong view of science and nature
Book review: ‘Darwin and the Barnacle’ by Rebecca Stott
Charles Darwin's eight-year barnacle odyssey.
Book review: ‘Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, adventure, and swimming iguana's in Charles Darwin's South America’ by Eric Simons
Young travel writer follows in the footsteps of Darwin.
Book review: ‘The Reluctant Mr Darwin’ by David Quammen
An intimate portrait of Charles Darwin and the making of his theory of evolution.
Book review: ‘Darwin in Cambridge’ by John van Wyhe
A useful booklet about Darwin's Cambridge connections.
Book review: ‘The Lunar Men’ by Jenny Uglow
The Friends who Made the Future, 1730–1810
Book review: ‘Alfred Russel Wallace: a Life’ by Peter Raby
A very readable biography about the ‘co-discoverer’ of Natural Selection—the man who nearly scooped Darwin.
Book review: ‘The Song of the Dodo’ by David Quammen
Island biogeography in an age of extinctions.
Book review: ‘Your Inner Fish’ by Neil Shubin
A journey into the 3.5 billion-year history of the human body.