Every Living Thing XMAS NR the prose elegant and poised'

the prose elegant and poised' Observer

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moving and beautifully written' TRACY REES 'Enjoyable and engaging

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In July 1980 London’s National Gallery paid a record sum for a canvas that purported to be Peter Paul Rubens’s Samson and Delilah (1609)

Every Living Thing XMAS NR the prose elegant and poised'WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY An Economist book of the year 2024. The dramatic, globe spanning and meticulously researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life. In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, believed