Shaping Ecology: The Life of Arthur Tansley

Foreword viii

Preface and Acknowledgements x

1 Kingley Vale: Worth Fighting For 1

2 The Origins of Ecology 15

3 George Tansley, Christian Socialism, and the Working Men's College 20

4 Highgate School, University College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge 38

5 Teaching at University College, the Chicks, and Marriage to Edith 48

6 Seashores and Woodlands: Looking for Patterns 60

7 The Managing Director of British Ecology 80

8 Disillusion and Disaffection 101

9 The Oxford Years, 1927-1937 122

10 The Magnum Opus, Grantchester, and Retirement 144

11 The Years of Fulfilment, 1937-1953 155

12 A Detached Liberal Philosopher and Free-thinker 179

References 198

Index 206