A renegade who was right . . . He was truly a man before his time

If animals, birds and insects could speak, they would possibly award Mr Gerald Durrell one of their first Nobel prizes

Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities

A revelation

Hugely enjoyed Philosophy for Life. Am an avid fan of classical philosophy & this book applies it thoroughly & beautifully.

It changed my life.

Witty and accessible…Highly recommended.

A brilliant and timely book.

Splendid, readable and engaging on philosophy as a way of life.

A vibrant book, showing how vivid and topical ancient wisdom is to life in the present day.

Great insight, honesty and humour

Unputdownable!

Packed with wisdom yet up to date with the latest thinking

Fantastic

Weisman's gripping fantasy will make most readers hope that at least some of us can stick around long enough to see how it all turns out

Engrossing

An idea that is so lateral and clever, so powerfully evocative and masterfully executed that the only appropriate response is fervent envy

A wonderful idea ... a hugely enjoyable and thought-provoking book

Fascinating, absorbing

A quick, absorbing read - a summer beach book with brains

If you can stomach only one end-of-the world-as-we-know it story this summer, none is more audacious or interesting than Alan Weisman's The World Without Us

His is an extraordinary story laced with tragedy

[Root's] life story, vividly related here, is crammed with incident and adventure. Curious, creative and fearless, he has diced with death on numerous occasions and been mauled several times in his efforts to capture the daily lives of everything from silver-back gorillas to leopards in the wild on film. A gripping account of a life well lived