IF TRAVEL broadens the mind, how about travel through time or space—or
even among other species? This month’s paperbacks stretch your mind.
John McNeill is concerned with travel by other species. If you’ve been
guiltily bored by a serious lecture on the threat of alien invasion—the
introduction of non-native species to a country, that is —then the nuggets
of pure gold offered by McNeill will leave you astonished. Did you know that
someone made the mad attempt to introduce all the species mentioned in
Shakespeare to the US? He began by setting free a few starlings in New…
