Perfumier and the Stinkhorn

In these elegant, short essays, revered nature writer Richard Mabey attempts to marry a Romantic''s view of the natural world with that of the meticulous observations of the scientist. By Romanticism, he refers to the view that nature isn''t a machine to be dissected, but a community of which we, the observers, are inextricably part. And that our feelings about that community are a perfectly prope...