All Books
A full list of all the books covered in this section.
by SM Walters & EA Stow
The biography of Darwin's friend and teacher, John Stevens Henslow.
by Deborah Cadbury
The Victorian search for dinosaurs.
by Stephen Jay Gould
My favourite book!
by Stephen Jay Gould
Why intelligence testing is stupid.
by Stephen Jay Gould
The late, lamented maestro's magnum opus.
by Richard Keynes
A detailed account of Darwin's Beagle voyage.
by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins's lavishly illustrated magnum opus.
by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins demonstrating that he can write wonderfully sensitively, as well as rant.
by Cyril Aydon
A short, very readable biography of Charles Darwin.
by Judith Hooper
The story of how some of Bernard Kettlewell's famous peppered moth experiments contained certain flaws.
by Stephen Jay Gould
Gould's last science book. It goes on a bit, but the chapter criticising Edward O Wilson's misappropriation of the term Consilience is Gould at his best.
by Peter Raby
A very readable biography about the co-discoverer of Natural Selection—the man who nearly scooped Darwin.
by Janet Browne
Part 1 of an entertaining two-part biography of Charles Darwin.
by Janet Browne
A short biography of one of the most revolutionary books ever written.
by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
The late Douglas Adams travels the world visiting endangered species.
by R D Keynes
A complete transcript of Darwin's Beagle Journal.
by Charles Darwin and his correspondents
Darwin's correspondence leading up to the publication of On the Origin of Species.
by Peter Nichols
Biography of the captain of HMS Beagle.
by Carl Zimmer
An excellent introduction to evolution.
by Rebecca Stott
Charles Darwin's eight-year barnacle odyssey.
by Jenny Uglow
A collective biography of a remarkable group of friends.
by Sandra Herbert
What Charles Darwin did for geology.
by Robert Huxley (ed.)
A whistle-stop tour of the history of natural history.
by Richard Mabey
A biography of the author of The Natural History of Selborne.
by Richard Mabey
Nature writer recovers from depression by reconnecting with nature.
by Richard Mabey
A series of essays about man's relationship with plants.
by Steve Jones
Short science essays from the famous geneticist and snail man.
by Steve Jones
Expositions on assorted scientific subject, using coral as the unifying theme.
by David Quammen
David Quammen travels the world, visiting the habitats of four man-eaters.
by David Quammen
David Quammen travels the world, visiting endangered species.
by David Quammen
Handy analysis of Darwin's procrastination over publishing Origin of Species.
by David Quammen
Science, journalistic and autobiographical essays.
by Mark Cocker
A naturalist's pursuit of rooks and jackdaws.
by Karl Heinz Marquardt
Meticulously detailed ship's plans of HMS Beagle, for anyone thinking of making a model or replica.
by Carl Zimmer
The weird and wonderful ways in which parasites make a living.
by J David Hoeveler
How Darwinian thinking influenced other disciplines in the USA.
by Simon Ings
How animals see and how they perceive.
by Neil Shubin
How our evolutionary history is written into our bodies.
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