Unclassifiable masterpiece.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Book review: ‘Vertigo’ by W.G. Sebald
File under Sebaldian.
Book review: ‘Campo Santo’ by W. G. Sebald
File under Sebaldian.
Book review: ‘The Emergence of Memory’ by Lynne Sharon Schwartz (ed.)
Interviews with, and essays about, the late W.G. Sebald.
Book review: ‘Austerlitz’ by W.G. Sebald
A haunting novel.
Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life
A very readable biography about the co-discoverer of Natural Selection—the man who nearly scooped Darwin.
Schott's Original Miscellany
Everything you never really needed to know in one handy volume.
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
David Quammen travels the world, visiting the habitats of four man-eaters.
The Reluctant Mr Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
Handy analysis of Darwin's procrastination over publishing Origin of Species.
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
David Quammen travels the world, visiting endangered species.