Dinosaur in a Haystack Reflections in Natural History

"Age has not withered nor custom staled the sharp pen and opinions of our man in Cambridge. Indeed...one sees familiar themes emerge with renewed vigor and new evidence...As always, there is homage to and defense of Darwin, as well as essays that honor lesser-known figures...or little known facts about the famous...Gould's essays on...literary figures are particularly well done. He provides a correction on the movie version of 'Frankenstein' in a wonderful piece on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. And two essays, on Tennyson...and on Swift, are gems. Since Gould's includes autobiographical pieces as well, we are treated to essays on his beloved snails and to the wonderful world of taxonomy and systematics..."Gould, Stephen Jay is the author of 'Dinosaur in a Haystack Reflections in Natural History', published 1996 under ISBN 9780517888247 and ISBN 0517888246.