Alfred russel wallace1823–1913

EXPLORING THE MOST REMOTE REACHES OF SOUTH AMERICA REVEALS LOST BRITISH HISTORIES AND CONNECTS COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

This week’s dream: the dazzling coral gardens of ...

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

For many people, Gilbert White needs little introduction. An 18th-century naturalist and clergyman, he lived in the village of Selborne in Hampshire, and kept a meticulous nature diary, which he event

FOR Lawson Wood, the sea has been an obsession that’s lasted a lifetime. It started as a boy, peering into the rockpools around Eyemouth and being endlessly fascinated by the ever-changing variety of

Goethe: A Life in Ideas Matthew Bell (Princeton ...