A valuable and fascinating contribution to the debate on man's relation to nature. Even for those who disagree, the wit of Jeffrey Masson's argument and the thousand little facts and anecdotes he serves with it make this book a pleasure.

Lessons in fatherhood, challengingly and devastatingly told

Gritty and entertaining

Fowles' language is strong, green, discursive, related throughout to his own life and memories

Bateson and Martin have delivered what others have claimed to provide: a solid, signposted road out of the trench war between nature and nurture

With a clarity of style that belies the complexity of the subject, Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin conduct us through the strategic highways adn tactical byways of individual life history

'Exhilarating'

'As enthralling in its own way as was Darwin's original'