A true and unexpectedly exhilarating tale of guile, obsession and competitiveness as rich and involving as any novel... You will care

An adrenaline rush of a book... about an obsession almost as mad as it is magnificent

An exciting road trip of a story... This sense of thrilling liberation, forays into uncharted territories and an understanding of what drives these men is as much part of the story as the quest itself

One of the most poignant works I have ever read. It is a beautiful book

With an enviable lightness of touch, Endersby weaves his scientific threads into a much broader tapestry of cultural history...[an] accessible and engaging account to find out how we got here.

A must for anyone even remotely thinking of getting a monkey, a sea lion, or, heaven forbid, a dog

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