Darwin's orchestra : an almanac of nature in history and the arts

This wonderful day-by-day journal consists of 366 essays - one for each day of the year, including one for leap year - spanning a time frame of more than 2,500 years, and ranging in subject from an eclipse that halted a battle in 585 B.C. to the last days of Calvin and Hobbes. Packed with little-known anecdotes about well-known figures, it will appeal to history buffs as much as to natural history devotees. Readers will be intrigued to find a "na...