The Outlandish Book

The Outlandish Book represents a reconstruction of a work that Robert Boyle was intending to publish at the time of his death in 1691. Subtitled 'the Travelling Naturalist', it comprises an anthology of conversations that he had with voyagers to exotic regions -- each of them self-contained, vivid and engrossing. The stories that Boyle was told are here presented with a brief commentary, but are otherwise left to speak for themselves.