A whistle-stop tour of the history of natural history.
Reviews: People
Reviews of books about people—excluding Darwin. (See the About Darwin section for books about the man himself.)
Book review: ‘The Evolutionists’ by J. David Hoeveler
How Darwinian thinking influenced other disciplines in the USA.
Book review: ‘Evolution’s Captain’ by Peter Nichols
Biography of the captain of HMS Beagle.
Book review: ‘The Age of Wonder’ by Richard Holmes
How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science.
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.