Pre-Owned I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History (Paperback) by Stephen Jay Gould

from clmerle

It was with bittersweetness that I read Gould's final collection of Natural History essays. I started with his first, Ever Since Darwin, and read every collection. I learned a great deal about evolution and natural history. It instilled a love for the genre and I've gone on to read other authors ...

from psiloiordinary

Another excellent collection of thought provoking essays. A nice additional flavour we get bits of his family history and obscure historical anecdotes to season the usual diet of evolutionary science. This is what he is best at.

from psiloiordinary

Another excellent collection of thought provoking essays. A nice additional flavour we get bits of his family history and obscure historical anecdotes to season the usual diet of evolutionary science. This is what he is best at.

from tnilsson

Gould is one of my favorite authors. I adore his books of essays. This one, however, did not do it for me, perhaps because the essays are more personal to Gould and less generally informative about science and history.