Being a specialist book reviewer, I almost always have a solid understanding of what any given book I sit down to read for review is about, and what I can reasonably expect from it. “Almost always,” that is.
Wanderland
adventure
Beginning to Look Up
As one who added the study of astronomy to my natural philosophy repertoire rather late in life, I found it a bit challenging to get the gist of just what I was looking at whenever I cast my eyes skyward (and if I’m honest, I very often still do). Not that there aren’t a number […]
Naturalists in Paradise
Three naturalists walk into the world’s largest tropical rainforest… No, it’s not the set-up for what could indeed be a pretty good natural science joke (with a punchline that includes the phrase “Good thing Spruce brought the tonic water!”); rather it’s the beginnings of a series of adventures that would yield some of the most significant scientific discoveries of the nineteenth century.