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CASPAR HENDERSON has been a journalist and an editor with various publications and broadcasters, including BBC Radio 4, the Financial Times, the Independent, Nature, New Scientist and openDemocracy (where he was senior editor for three years). He is a past recipient of an IUCN-Reuters Award for best environmental reporting in Western Europe. His debut, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings (Granta, 2012), won the Roger Deakin Award of the Society of Authors and the Jerwood Award of the Royal Society of Literature, and was shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.This book does exactly what it says on the cover, and shows us where wonder is to be found. His account of familiar phenomena shows how unfamiliar and extraordinary they really are
- Philip Pullman,
A study of awe written by a writer who evokes the fascination of the natural world as eye-openingly as anyone I've read
- Tom Holland, Observer
Henderson does a wonderful job... you can't read the life chapter without being struck by the contingency of it all - the accident of our existence
- David Aaronovitch, The Times
Delightfully crammed with fascinating facts... the illustrations are wondrous themselves... Lovely and funny
- Steven Poole, Spectator
What a thrillingly uplifting antidote to these grim and gloomy times Caspar Henderson has created here! To be reminded of all the wonder in the world is a marvellous gift, all the more so because it is so beautifully presented. And if there is anyone who would not delight in this magical compendium of true things, they are surely the ones who need it most
- Philip Ball,
For Henderson, the universe is constantly birthing wonders. A book that tries to give articulate voice to the gasps of astonishment at each birth is almost bound to fail. Yet this is a glorious success: breathless but musical; humble but confident; smart, kind, and glittering. It will turn the most jaded reductionist into a delighted child
- Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast,
A wondrous brew of science, history, and sheer exhilaration. Read it and marvel
- Sarah Bakewell,
For there to be science there must first be wonder. Caspar Henderson teaches us how to wonder anew with a new vision of science illuminated by a rich range of literature, philosophy, art and music. He quite simply reweaves the rainbow
- Hugh Aldersey-Williams,
Caspar Henderson's writing astonishes. It crosses boundaries and defies categorisation. It is a map for the curious and a call to arms. It asks us to wonder more and to wonder better, to actually see the gifts that buffet us but also our duty to them. He is my cartographer of choice for these odd and troubled times
- Sam Guglani,
Engagingly written and full of fascinations, Caspar Henderson's new book is such a delight. It's both eye-opening and awe-inspiring, as it conjures up the rich spell of Earth's wonders
Diane Ackerman
This book [...] charts the course for a journey through all that is fascinating and awe-inspiring in the world... A beautiful, enlightening book that is sure to inspire even the most jaded of readers to take a different look at the world around them... A glittering success
- Jade Taylor-Salazar, E&T Magazine