By the same author

NONFICTION

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau:
A Young Man’s Unlikely Path to Walden Pond

The Story of Charlotte’s Web: E. B. White’s Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic

In the Womb: Animals
(Companion to a National Geographic Channel television series)

Apollo’s Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination

Adam’s Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form

Darwin’s Orchestra: An Almanac of Nature in History and the Arts

ANTHOLOGIES

The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories

The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Detective Stories

Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories

The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime:
Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes

The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime:
Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc

The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis