Psychjourney Audio Book Club

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution

Length-40 minutes, 47 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. David Quammen, author of The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution published by W.W. Norton.

Mr. David Quammen

David Quammen is the author of The Song of the Dodo and Monster of God, is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award, most recently for a National Geographic story on Darwin. He has also written for Harper’s, Rolling Stone and New York Times Book Review. He wrote a column, called “Natural Acts” for Outside magazine for fifteen years (for which he won two National Magazine Awards.) Quannen lives in Bozeman, Montana.

Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man

MP3 File

38 minutes, 17 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Dale Peterson, author of Jane Goodall, The Woman Who Redefined Man, published by Houghton Mifflin.

Dale Peterson, Ph.D. is the coauthor with Jane Goodall of Visions of Caliban (a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Book) and the editor of her two books of letters, Africa in My Blood and Beyond Innocence. His other books include The Deluge and the Ark, Chimpanzee Travels, Storyville USA,  Eating Apes, and (with Richard Wrangham) Demonic Males. They have been distinguished as an Economist Best Book, a Discover Top Science Book, a Bloomsbury Review Editor's Favorite, a Village Voice Best Book, and a finalist for the PEN New England Award and the Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize in England. He resides in Massachusetts. Visit the Jane Goodall Institute website.

Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human

MP3 File

Length-51 minutes, 8 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Chip Walter, author of Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human published by Walker Publishing Company.

Mr. Chip Walter

Chip Walter is a science journalist, documentary filmmaker, and former CNN bureau chief. He is coauthor (with William Shatner) of I’m Working on That and author of Space Age. Walter teaches science writing at Carnegie Mellon University, is senior manager of strategic communications and public information at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Visit his website.