Gaia Vince’s Adventures in the Anthropocene; a Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made (Milkweed Editions / Chatto & Windus) has been awarded the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.
In their decision, the Winton Prize judges said, “Vince’s passion and strong voice grabs you instantly and the story she tells is truly original. A finely-crafted book on an important, urgent topic.”
In 1964, while examining the remains of various small creatures collected from inside a long disused old wood-fired oven in an outbuilding that had been the home of a family of Barn Owls in Giohar, Somalia, Professor Alberto Simonetta of the University of Florence broke open an owl pellet that contained part of the lower […]