The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

In the Page-Turner blog of The New Yorker James Guida says that The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is about earth’s adventure as a whole...

The verdict in the May 15 edition of Library Journal : This readable volume...will appeal to the serious reader with broad interests in sc...

In an interview with Sharon Blackie in Issue 4 of Earthlines , Robert Macfarlane says: Caspar Henderson's The Book of Barely Imagin...

In a review for Friends of the Earth, Nicola Baird says: ...Once you start reading The Book of Barely Imagined Beings , it becomes hard t...

Scientific American recommends the forthcoming U.S. edition of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings .

Rivqa Rafael writes : Henderson’s writing is engaging, descriptive and often drily humorous ... [He] is a Wallace for our time , delight...

A starred review from Publisher's Weekly is the first US review of the forthcoming Chicago University Press edition : ...[the aut...

...at The Book Depository (25 Feb): P.S. On 3 March: Cara Fielder for Waterstone's Blog chose Barely Imagined Beings as one of h...

Ed Gillespie writes that The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is: a book of genuinely big ideas , grappling with everything from extincti...

What do you want? A medal? Praise for The Book of Barely Imagined Beings includes the following: "Spell-binding, brilliantly exe...

Gavin Francis writes : [This is] a spellbinding book that seeks to astonish us with the sheer intricacy, diversity and multiplicity of l...

James McConnaghie's review of " this magnificent bestiary " is the cover story of the books section in this week's Sun...

There is a review by James Attlee in The Independent of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings : ...Henderson hopes to prompt a sense of res...

The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is " unquestionably one of the best books of the year " writes Bella Bathurst (who previously...

In a micro-review in The Financial Times , Carl Wilkinson describes The Book of Barely Imagined Beings as " an enlightening, beautifu...

Euan Hirst, Academic Manager at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford, chooses The Book of Barely Imagined Beings as his book of the year.

Review  by Anthony Davies in Ham and High (18 October): The overall impact is stunning . It is a fine and accessible work of scholarship...

In the Literary Review , Philip Hoare says The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is: [a] magnificent new compendium ... [Caspar Henderson w...

From a review by Roy Wilkinson for Caught by the River: The Book Of Barely Imagined Being s is a kind of rationalist, scientific spin on ...

In The Daily Telegraph Bella Bathurst writes that The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is: captivating ...a collection as fabulous as ...