You know, the good folks of my adoptive county are so full of themselves sometimes…'Appen today is Yorkshire Day.
2007 Books
A list of the books read by me during 2007.
by Ian Jack (ed.)
A collection of writing (loosely) themed around war zones.
by Carl Zimmer
The weird and wonderful ways in which parasites make a living.
by David Quammen
Handy analysis of Darwin's procrastination over publishing Origin of Species.
by Neal Stephenson
Part two of the historical page-turner, The Baroque Cycle.
by Richard Mabey
A series of essays about man's relationship with plants.
by Steve Jones
Expositions on assorted scientific subject, using coral as the unifying theme.
by Ian Jack (ed.)
Granta's latest selection of promising young American writers.
by Janet Browne
A short biography of one of the most revolutionary books ever written.
by Karl Heinz Marquardt
Meticulously detailed ship's plans of HMS Beagle, for anyone thinking of making a model or replica.
by David Quammen
Science, journalistic and autobiographical essays.
by Mark Cocker
A naturalist's pursuit of rooks and jackdaws.
by Ian Jack (ed.)
'People whose experience of life suggests they have something to tell us about survivial.'
by J David Hoeveler
How Darwinian thinking influenced other disciplines in the USA.
by Robert MacFarlane
Author seeks the remaining wild places of Britain and Ireland.
