Pairs high brilliance with deep modesty.

Reading Gould is not merely a pleasure but an education and a chronicle of the times

Not only one of the finest scientific minds of the later twentieth century, but also one of its greatest polymaths

Gould strives to outline a more peaceful, mutually supportive view of the realtionship between the sciences and the humanities

One of the best essayists in the business. He uses his wide background knowledge...as a bridge to entice non-scientists into sharing the excitement of scientific discovery and the curious, convoluted path of new ideas through history

A fitting tribute to his career, as it combines, in both style and substance, the different themes of his life's work. Blending genuine literary talents with impeccable scientific credentials, Gould crafts an elegant entreaty for scientists and scholars to spend less time complaining about each other and more time combining their considerable resources. We need both the fox and the hedgehog in any intellectual menagerie - the persistent pluralist

A fresh, strange, and wonderful new voice in nature writing

A lovely little book. After all we've done to them it's great to see the animals getting their own back

I wolfed it down

First-rate, unsentimental writing about nature and about the ways that human beings try to cope with the most terrible cruelties that nature offers up

Elegant and wryly funny

The most polymathic science writer of our time

An engaging and lively account of an endlessly curious man

A fascinating window into the complex emergent urban future. This book is an extremely sophisticated, often devastatingly witty and ironic, interpretation of what is possible over the next two decades

Throw out your old atlas. The new version is here

Kasarda ... and Lindsay convincingly put the airport at the centre of modern urban life

Highly recommended