This is a beautiful book, exploring the stories of the many forgotten women fighting for recognition in both science and in the voting booth in the period around the First World War. This book highlights their contribution to science, and their victories and the set-backs. At times I found...
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
Friday, 2 March 2018
Book Review: Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest Expeditions by David Attenborough
I was highly anticipating the release of this book, as it covers the early career of Attenborough and the programs which changes the world of nature documentaries. However, I was disappointed, I think this is due to the book being based on Attenborough's original accounts of what occurred on his...
Book Review: The Orchid Hunter: A young botanist's search for happiness by Leif Bersweden
This is a beautiful book written with great passion, and follows a wonderful journey across the UK to find all 52 species of native orchids. However, it just didn't grab me. This book is definitely written for botanists, because of the amount of plant and Latin names. It would be nice to get to...