All animals…

What book would you pick to read and reread if you were going to an uninhabited island? Well, as we have been under the spell of the worldwide covid-19 pandemic for some time, seemingly in splendid isolation, I have had the chance come forward with three titles. Although all three reflect on animals, it would be difficult to find any three books that describe animals from such extremely different perspectives, than Animal farm (George Orwell 1945), Variability in mammals (Alexej Yablokov 1966) and The song of the dodo (David Quammen 1996). The differences in size, style, and scope are striking....