Brief Candle In The Dark: My Life In Science

In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of his first 35 years In Brief Candle in the Dark he continues his autobiography following the threads that have run through the second half of his life so far He paints a vivid picture coloured with wit anecdote and digression of the twentyfive postgraduate years he spent teaching at Oxford He pays affectionate tribute to past colleagues and students recalling with characteristic wry humour the idiosyncrasies of an establishment steeped in tradition and ritual He invites us to share the life of a travelling scientist from fieldwork on the Panama Canal to conferences in the company of some of the most prominent and most eccentric of the worlds scientific luminaries Most important of all for the first time he reviews with fresh and stimulating insights the evolving narrative of his ideas about science over the course of his highly distinguished career as thinker teacher and writer