Wildlife

Weinberger’s essays are like encyclopaedias in miniature, crammed with curious details that make you wonder at the strangeness of creation, and the ability of humans to make it even stranger.

Wildlife is a collection which celebrates birds and fish, dogs and flies, ticks and mole-rats, and those two legendary creatures the tiger and the rhinoceros — both highly prized, both now almost hunted to extinction. No field of human knowledge is too remote, no fact too fanciful for hi…