Recommended Reading

European bee-eater. Image source: Gould, John, and Elizabeth Gould. The Birds of Europe. London: Printed by Richard; John E. Taylor, 1837, pl. 59.

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Barber, Lynn. The Heyday of Natural History. Garden City: Doubleday, 1980.

Blunt, Wilfrid. The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus. New York: Viking, 1971.

Brosse, Jacques. Great Voyages of Discovery: Circumnavigators and Scientists, 1764-1843. New York: Facts on File, 1983.

Browne, Janet. Charles Darwin: Voyaging. Volume I of a Biography. New York: Knopf, 1995.

Browne, Janet. Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. Volume II of a Biography. New York: Knopf, 2002.

Browne, Janet. Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006.

Dance, S. Peter. The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and their Work. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1978.

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Farber, Paul Lawrence. Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E.O. Wilson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Haupt, Lyanda Lynn. Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks. Boston: Little Brown, 2006.

Keynes, Richard Darwin. Fossils, Finches, and Fuegians: Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Ogilvie, Brian W. The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Pauly, Daniel. Darwin's Fishes: An Encyclopedia of Ichthyology, Ecology, and Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Rehbock, Philip F. The Philosophical Naturalists: Themes in Early Nineteenth-Century British Biology. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.

Rice, Anthony. Voyages of Discovery: Three Centuries of Natural History Exploration. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1999.

Rudwick, Martin J. S. The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology. 2nd edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Stott, Rebecca. Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough. New York: Norton, 2003.

Winsor, Mary P. Starfish, Jellyfish, and the Order of Life: Issues in Nineteenth-century Science. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.