How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science.
Reviews: People
Reviews of books about people—excluding Darwin. (See the About Darwin section for books about the man himself.)
Book review: ‘Gilbert White’ by Richard Mabey
A biography of the author of The Natural History of Selborne.
Book review: ‘Of Moths & Men’ by Judith Hooper
The story of how some of Bernard Kettlewell's famous peppered moth experiments contained certain flaws.
Book review: ‘The Great Naturalists’ by Robert Huxley (ed.)
A whistle-stop tour of the history of natural history.
Book review: ‘The Evolutionists’ by J. David Hoeveler
How Darwinian thinking influenced other disciplines in the USA.
Book review: ‘Dry Store Room No.1’ by Richard Fortey
The personalities and politics behinds the scenes at the Natural History Museum.
Book review: ‘The Dinosaur Hunters’ by Deborah Cadbury
The Victorian search for dinosaurs.