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...Ralph A. Lewin La Jolla, Calif...
Wraith flashed the information of the Belgrano's course change to Fleet Commander Woodward, who passed it on to London. Admiral Sir Terence Lewin, chief of the British defense staff, took the news at once to the five-member emergency War Cabinet of Prime Minister Thatcher, which was meeting at 10 Downing Street. Lewin's recommendation was that the Conqueror act to defend the British task force. The War Cabinet agreed, and the order to fire was sent back to Commander Wraith...
When Charles Darwin stepped off the Beagle and landed in the Galapagos in 1835, he found a world in which time had stood still. As Roger Lewin, an editor of Britain's New Scientist, reveals in Darwin's Forgotten World (Reed; $19.95), the clock is still stopped. Iguanas and other lizards, close relatives of the dinosaurs that have been extinct for millenniums, prowl the islands. Giant tortoises, resembling prehistoric tanks, lurch slowly along their beaches. Lewin, aided by Photographer Sally Anne Thompson, does his usual excellent job of showing what Darwin saw when he landed in this natural...
...People of the Lake: Mankind and Its Beginnings (Leakey's second and latest book), which focuses on the Koobi Fora finds, is a credit to Leakey. Leakey and co-author Roger Lewin write intelligent, provocative prose and present their amazing discoveries to readers with just the right combination of lucidity and academic integrity...
People of the Lake, Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin...