MixedGeographical (UK)While it’s an interesting—though by necessity often repetitive—read, it seldom evokes the ferocious dynamism of the changes wrought by non-natives. Like much modern nature writing, Invasive Aliens has the feel of an extended magazine feature (not helped by the author’s fluent journalese). Eatherley combines potted species histories with site visits (deer at Woburn, quagga mussels at Staines Moor) and ecological detail, delivered knowledgeably and with authority ... Only at the beginning and end of the book, however, does he really address and engage robustly with the philosophical complexity of his subject. One needn’t subscribe to the unorthodox arguments of Fred Pearce’s The New Wild and Ken Thompson’s Where Do Camels Belong? to wish that the rest of this book had a little more of their zest and animation. Eatherley is very good on the new fronts opened up in invasion ecology by changes in human behaviour
