Books to travel with: The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester
16 July 2008
Joseph Needham is credited with changing the West's view of China, revealing a hotbed of invention – this is the story of his monumental quest
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Books to travel with: Central Park in the Dark by Marie Winn
16 July 2008
You don't need to leave the city to witness real wildness – as this celebration of wildlife in New York's Central Park shows
Books to travel with: Guesstimation by Lawrence Weinstein and John A Adam
16 July 2008
What better travel companion than a book that helps you work out the risk of a shark attack compared to the drive you just took to the beach?
Books to travel with: Coral: A pessimist in paradise by Steve Jones
16 July 2008
Steve Jones's journey through coral reefs is essential reading – but you might want to leave it in your bag until the flight home
Books to travel with: The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
16 July 2008
This fictional tale of Nikola Tesla gets closer to the man than any biography
Books to travel with: Final Theory by Mark Alpert
16 July 2008
A physics thriller, in which Einstein's unified theory drives the action, is the perfect beach reading for the physics geek who likes a dose of action
Books to travel with: Riffing on Strings edited by Sean Miller and Shveta Verma
16 July 2008
A book on creative writing and string theory? It's got the potential to go horribly awry, but this collection of writing is stellar
