Writing tagged: ‘reviews’

Book review: ‘The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being’ by Alice Roberts

Evolution and the making of us.
Book review: ‘Darwin’s Backyard’ by James T Costa

How small experiments led to a big theory.
Book review: ‘Dispelling the Darkness’ by John van Wyhe

Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.
Book review: ‘Victorians Undone’ by Kathryn Hughes

Tales of the flesh in the age of decorum.
Book review: ‘In Patagonia’ by Bruce Chatwin

Wandering about Patagonia with no clear plan in mind.
Book review: ‘Heligoland’ by Jan Rüger

Britain, Germany, and the struggle for the North Sea.
Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson

A long-overdue biography of the Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.
Book reviews: ‘Charles Darwin: Voyaging’ • ‘Charles Darwin: The Power of Place’

A magnificent two-volume biography.
Book review: ‘The Last Wilderness’ by Neil Ansell

A journey into silence.
Book review: ‘Ravilious & Co.’ by Andy Friend

The Pattern of Friendship.
Book review: ‘The Dun Cow Rib’ by John Lister-Kaye

A very natural childhood.
Book review: ‘Improbable Destinies’ by Jonathan Losos

How predictable is evolution?