Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould

Nov 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Jonathan Sleep

About this audiobook

Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould does the wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of collected essays-his sixth since Ever Since Darwin-Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives and to our ancestral generations. Along with way, he opens to us the mysteries of fish tails, frog calls, and other matters, and shows once and for all why we must take notice when a seemingly insignificant creature is threatened, like the land snail Partula from Moorea, whose extinction he movingly relates.

About the author

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University and the author of over twenty books.

After graduating from Georgia State University with a film degree, Jonathan Sleep went to work developing and creating shows for a TV production company in Atlanta. When the opportunity came for him to narrate audiobooks, he jumped in with both feet and hasn't looked back since.