How we made the wilderness.
Reviews: Science
Book review: ‘On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects’ by Charles Darwin
Darwin responds to his critics.
Book review: ‘Map of a Nation’ by Rachel Hewitt
A biography of the early Ordnance Survey.
Book review: ‘Proto’ by Laura Spinney
How one ancient language went global.
Book review: ‘The Genetic Book of the Dead’ by Richard Dawkins
A Darwinian reverie.
Book review: ‘The Celts’ by Alice Roberts
Searching for a civilisation.
Book review: ‘Under a Metal Sky’ by Philip Marsden
A journey through minerals, greed and wonder.
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 30 • 1882’
The end of a magnificent era.
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 29 • 1881’
Publishing on earthworms • a pension for Wallace • death of a brother • feeling his age • and lots more…
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 28 • 1880’
Publishing on plant movement • researching earthworms • trying to get a civil pension for a friend • turning down an invitation from the Archbishop of Canterbury • and lots more…