BOOK REVIEW
Forced to Choose
et al., Roald Hoffmann
PETER WARD
Paleontologist whose books include On Methuselah's Trail,
The Call of Distant Mammoths and, most recently (with Donald
Brownlee), Rare Earth
As a boy I was just knocked out by the Roy Chapman Andrews books
about dinosaurs and the Gobi Desert, and as a teenager the greatest
influence was Loren Eisley. I was also very moved by the travel
books of Richard Halliburton and saw how travel writing and science
writing were often the same genre.