My next book, Through Darwin’s Eyes, which has just entered its second draft, explores how Charles Darwin looked at the world, and how his theories enabled us to look at the same world in new and better ways.
As with my previous book, On the Moor, in which Darwin made numerous appearances, Through Darwin’s Eyes will be a blend of science-, history-, and nature-writing, exploring how Darwin arrived at his ideas, how he tested them, how his observational skills were enhanced by the application of his own theories, how his thoughts evolved over time, and how he occasionally got things wrong.
The book also explores how modern scientific studies continue to lend support to, and build on, Darwin’s theories, and how we can all use Darwin’s ideas to enhance our understanding and enjoyment of the natural world.
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Buy my first book: On the Moor: science, history and nature on a country walk
…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
