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Darwin and the Barnacle by Rebecca Stott
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
A scientific detective story that illuminates the remarkable saga of Darwin's greatest achievement. Pairing Charles Darwin and a rare species of barnacle as her unlikely protagonists, Rebecca Stott has written an absorbing work of history that guides readers through the treacherous shoals of nineteenth- ...Show more
Darwin's Ghosts - In Search of the First Evolutionists by Rebecca Stott
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations of heresy, but this letter was different: it accused him of taking credit for a theory that wasn't his. Yet when he tried to trace his intellectual fore ...Show more
Darwin's Ghosts : In Search of the First Evolutionists by Rebecca Stott
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like swarms, some expressing praise, most outrage and accusations of heresy. But the letter from the Reverend ...Show more
Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in present-day Cambridge, but entangled with the 17th century, this is at once a ghost story, a love story and a beautifully told history of 17th century Cambridge - as well as a four-hundred year-old murder mystery in which Isaac Newton is a suspect.
In the Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the vein of Bad Blood and Why be Happy when you can be Normal?: an enthralling, at times shocking, and deeply personal family memoir of growing up in, and breaking away from, a fundamentalist Christian cult. 'At university when I made new friends and confidantes, I couldn't explain how I'd become a ...Show more
Oyster by Rebecca Stott
$39.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
As everybody knows, oysters are the ultimate aphrodisiac. Casanova is said to have eaten 50 raw oysters every morning with his mistress of the moment, in a bathtub designed for two. Whether oysters truly have exciting properties is open to debate, but like all seafoods, they contain high amounts of phos ...Show more
The Coral Thief by Rebecca Stott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is due to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris to study anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes - only to realise that his letters of introduction and a gift of precious coral spe ...Show more
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