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

The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime

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

The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, by Maurice Leblanc

The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel, by Don Marquis