This book is what I presume the title states. However after a day and a half I'm already 100 pages in, and the book is astounding. The author intended to write the whole of life in one book, and so far has jumped from Plants, Animals, Germs, to the Human Body (as far as i've gotten.) He writes this book so simply, yet it describes our world in such beauty that you are seeing what he has written so vividly you can almost touch the images.

The science behind it, which I think some is a little outdated by about 30 years, is pretty much spot on. This book is science, philosophy, and poetry in one.