CURIOUS BOY (PB)

In this memoir, Richard Fortey shows how restless curiosity about the natural world led him to become a leading scientist and writer, with adventures and misadventures along the way. From a garden shed laboratory where he manufactured the greatest stink in the world to a tent high in the Arctic in pursuit of fossils. He evokes with warmth and wit how the natural world started out as his playground and refuge, then became his life's work.