Writing tagged: ‘reviews’
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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.
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Book review: ‘HMS Beagle’ by Karl Heinz Marquardt
Meticulously detailed ship’s plans of HMS Beagle, for anyone thinking of making a model or replica!
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Book review: ‘Evolution’s Captain’ by Peter Nichols
Biography of the captain of HMS Beagle.
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Book review: ‘The Rough Guide to Evolution’ by Mark Pallen
A handy guide to all things evolutionary.
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Book review: ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ by Charles Darwin
Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the World.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 7: 1858–1859’
Darwin’s correspondence leading up to the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.
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Book review: ‘The Ancestor’s Tale: a Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life’ by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins’s lavishly illustrated magnum opus-cum-coffee table book.
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Book review: ‘The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution’ by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins returns to what he’s best at.
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Book review: ‘Darwin in Scotland’ by J.F. Derry
Edinburgh, evolution and enlightenment.