You know, the good folks of my adoptive county are so full of themselves sometimes…'Appen today is Yorkshire Day.
2008 Books
A list of the books read by me during 2008.
by Robert Huxley (ed.)
A whistle-stop tour of the history of natural history.
by various authors
One to go till the big one!
by Simon Ings
How animals see and how they perceive.
by Charles Darwin and his correspondents
Darwin's correspondence leading up to the publication of On the Origin of Species.
by Neil Shubin
How our evolutionary history is written into our bodies.
by Simon Gray
The third in playwright Simon Gray's series of diaries.
by Richard Mabey
Non-sentimental nature writing at its best.
by Simon Armitage
A writer and poet's obsession with music.
by Richard Mabey
Short monograph on the role of nightingales in western culture.
by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Everything you didn't know you wanted to know about clouds.
by William Boyd (ed.)
Extra thick edition, celebrity guest editor, Hockney cover, big name authors: this must be the 100th edition!
by George Johnson
Ten classic science experiments and the stories behind them.
by Jason Cowley (ed.)
A return to form for the relaunched Granta.
by Jason Cowley (ed.)
More environments than nature writing, really—but still great stuff.
by Craig Taylor
Sequel to a classic 1969 study of an English village.
by Niles Eldredge
A fascinating analysis of the development of Darwin's thinking.
by Jason Cowley (ed.)
Far better than I initially thought it was going to be.
by Michael Boulter
The first book with the word Darwin on the spine that I ever gave up on.
by Keith S Thomson
A biography of one of the most important ships in history.
by Eric Simons
Young travel writer follows in the footsteps of Darwin.
