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“... he didn’t. From Darwin’s scientific difficulties to those afflicting his theory today: Brian Leith’s handbook of doubts about Darwinism is a succinct and opportune review of the latest critiques of neo-Darwinian gradualism, written, as befits a BBC producer, to put the intelligent layman in the picture. His survey of the literature (ranging from ...”

“... is a young man called Mark Renton or Rents, a heroin addict who was born and brought up in Leith, the old port neighbourhood on the north-eastern side of Edinburgh. Renton has had it with steady work, having been an apprentice joiner for a while and given it up. He has tried, and also given up on, being a university student in Aberdeen, where he blew ...”

“... but he was never less than one himself, still thinking at the end of his life about the breeze in Leith while writing Weir of Hermiston by a swamp in Samoa. For health reasons, and philosophical ones, Stevenson would go in search of the sun, for he was heliotropic, bound by nature and temperament to seek (or be) the flourishing flower made strong by the ...”