Tim Birkhead: The Wonderful Mr Willughby [2019] paperback ZCLIM Vivid and personal

Vivid and personal

industries

satire and pure mirth

waiting to hear whether she'll get to go home or be bundled off

Tim Birkhead: The Wonderful Mr Willughby [2019] paperback ZCLIM Vivid and personal'Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds' Literary Review Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Along with his Cambridge tutor John Ray, Willughby was determined to overhaul the whole of natural history and impose order on its complexity. It was exhilarating, exacting and exhausting work. Yet