Reviews
Book and video reviews.
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Book review: ‘The Age of Wonder’ by Richard Holmes
How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science.
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Book review: ‘Of Moths & Men’ by Judith Hooper
The story of how some of Bernard Kettlewell’s famous peppered moth experiments contained certain flaws.
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Book review: ‘The Great Naturalists’ by Robert Huxley (ed.)
A whistle-stop tour of the history of natural history.
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Book review: ‘The Eye’ by Simon Ings
How animals see and how they perceive.
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Book review: ‘The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments’ by George Johnson
Ten classic science experiments and the stories behind them.
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Book review: ‘Coral’ by Steve Jones
Expositions on assorted scientific subjects using coral as the unifying theme.
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Book review: ‘The Single Helix’ by Steve Jones
Short science essays from the famous geneticist and snail man.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Island’ by Steve Jones
A modern-day updating of Darwin’s less well-known books.
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Book review: ‘Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary’ by R.D. Keynes (ed.)
An annotated version of the journal Darwin kept aboard HMS Beagle.
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Book review: ‘Fossils, Finches and Fuegians’ by Richard Keynes
Charles Darwin’s adventures and siscoveries on the Beagle, 1832-1836.
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Book review: ‘Weeds’ by Richard Mabey
How vagabond plants gatecrashed civilisation and changed the way we think about nature.
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Book review: ‘Gilbert White’ by Richard Mabey
A biography of the author of The Natural History of Selborne.