Since I have only recently read Helen Macdonald’s Vesper Flights, this book immediately reminded me of it. Both books are collections of often highly personal tales that are mostly concerned with animal life, and are written with an impressive reverence for and a deep understanding of the natural world. Where Macdonald looks to the birds in the sky and occasionally the animals roaming the land, however, physicist Bill François is solely interested in the creatures populating the more mysterious world of the oceans. It starts […]