“The gentle and witty memoirs of a scientist, packed with personal ideas and anecdotes about people – famous and otherwise – that have filled his life.” —Marian Stamp Dawkins, FRS CBE, Emeritus Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of Oxford
“The Englishman is a lively, often self-deprecating story about a man’s journey from the chaos of wartime London to the quiet order of a university lab, demonstrating that a life well-examined is a life well-read.” —San Diego Book Review, Scott Olsen
“The Englishman is an essential read for anyone invested in the empirical study of behavior or curious about the professional life of a leading psychobiologist. Staddon’s measured voice, combined with his deep intellectual curiosity, produces a memoir that is both professionally informative and philosophically stimulating.” —Seattle Book Review, Jessica Fahey
“The memoirs of John Staddon … is a powerful read. It includes his early life, his non-linear education, and his research career at Duke University which involved significant travel. An additional highly interesting twist is the QRC code on the back cover to hear the author read the Preface and the Postscript — both delightful and the accent brings to light why he is always referred to as the Englishman even though an American citizen for decades.” —Clarice M. Yentsch, Ph.D., Ocean Microbiologist and co-founded Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
