John van Wyhe

"Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than most persons would at first suppose."
Anyone who can spend so much time observing quietly the way of the world, including earthworms (he wrote a whole book on them!), is an interesting person. Darwin certainly was...outside of his contributions to science which have withstood all modern tests.
Apart from the content this book is also visually interesting with drawings and bits of ephemera in pockets.

This was OK, borrowed from my local library, and unfortunately there were a few things missing like letters from darwin and manuscript pages. However the artwork was fantastic. the information contained within is in depth but for whatever reason I got bored half way through - which is probably me rather than they way it is written

It's a book with a purpose. It was to put to bed any speculations about Darwin stealing or not being fair to Wallace, and I think it did the job very well.

a collection of materials, not a book