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 Niles Eldredge
A fascinating analysis of the development of Darwin's thinking.
by Adrian Desmond & James Moore
How Charles Darwin's abhorrence of slavery influenced his science.
by Richard Keynes
A detailed account of Darwin's Beagle voyage.
by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins's lavishly illustrated magnum opus.
by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins returns to what he's best at.
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 John van Wyhe
A useful booklet about Darwin's Cambridge connections.
by JF Derry, FCD
Darwin's influences and influencees north of the border.
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
Darwin's first masterpiece.
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 Mark Pallen
A handy guide to all things evolutionary.
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 Richard Holmes
Science between the Banks and Darwin voyages.
by Sandra Herbert
What Charles Darwin did for geology.
by Eric Simons
Young travel writer follows in the footsteps of Darwin.
by Robert Youngson
13-page booklet examining the possible causes for Darwin's illness.
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 Richard Mabey
Non-sentimental nature writing at its best.
by Richard Mabey
The best of Mabey's BBC Wildlife magazine pieces.
by Richard Mabey
How nature can sometimes thrive in man-made environments.
by Richard Mabey
British nature writer wants to cut nature's vagabonds some slack.
by Richard Mabey
Short but enjoyable book, based on a series of radio programmes.
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 Steve Jones
A modern-day updating of Darwin's less well-known books.
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 Tim Dee
A perfect blend of science and poetry.
by Keith S Thomson
A biography of one of the most important ships in history.
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 Richard Fortey
The personalities and politics behinds the scenes at the Natural History Museum.
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.
by Jason Cowley (ed.)
More environments than nature writing, really—but still great stuff.
by Michael Boulter
The first book with the word Darwin on the spine that I ever gave up on.
by Sarah Bellis, Caroline Cook & Jenni Taylor
A Darwin-themed activity book for children, reviewed by Eleanor Armitage, age 6½.
by Mick Manning & Brita Granström
'What Charles Darwin saw on his massive, amazing journey!' Reviewed by Eleanor Armitage, age 7.
by Roger Deakin
A celebration of all things arboreal.
by Roger Deakin
The jottings of a great observer of nature's minutiae.
by Roger Deakin
A celebration of all things natatorial.
by Philip Hoare
A wonderful history of man's relationship with the whale.
by John Lister-Kaye
Famous nature writer's observations from his daily circular walk.
by John Lister-Kaye
Delightful book about encouraging a young daughter's love of nature.
by J.A. Baker
British nature writer wants to cut nature's vagabonds some slack.
by R.M. Lockley
Wartime letters to a close friend about the wildlife on a Welsh island.
by Colin Elford
A rather special book from a forest ranger.
by Melanie Challenger
How our estrangement from Nature has led to collapse and extinction of entire ways of life.
by Nan Shepherd
1940s masterpiece of nature writing.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species
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