Thinking Small and Large

Peter Forbes is a science writer and journalist writing mainly on life sciences and natural history. He read chemistry and worked for the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and in natural history publishing before becoming a freelance writer. He lives in London and teaches the Narrative Non-Fiction course at City St George's, University of London His first full-length non-fiction book, The Gecko's Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book, a groundbreaking introduction to the new field of engineering and materials solutions inspired by nature, was longlisted for the Royal Society/Aventis Prize. He followed this with Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage, which won the Warwick Prize for Writing.

I began to read it casually and found that I couldn't stop ... The account of the way the world of living things actually works and of our disastrous interference in the processes that give our species its very existence is brilliantly convincing.