“I am a collector; a curator of feathers, stones, pinecones, and bones. I love going out into the natural world and bringing a piece of its beauty and intrigue back indoors with me. Alan Dudley is a fellow collector, only he’s taken it far beyond my wildest dreams. Through the pages of this marvelous book …
Leave it to Simon Winchester to unearth the story of Alan Dudley (and his massive skull collection) as well the history and importance of skulls in science, art, culture, and history. Amazing photos accompany! Skulls was a newsletter staff pick from Paulina Springs Books, with stores in Sisters and Redmond, Oregon. Buy Skulls from Paulina Springs.
“Apart from being a good biography (of which this is a species of sorts), Atlantic, by Simon Winchester, is my favorite kind of book— a literate blend of history, geography, natural sciences and people, written by an author who loves all of the above and is clearly fascinated by his subject, in this case the …
