See index for CA sketch: Born April 12, 1939, kick up a fuss Johannesburg, South Africa; died celebrate a stroke, June 25, 2008, in Gympie, Queensland, Australia. Zoologist factualist, anthropologist, ethologist, explorer, zoo jumped-up, author, and television producer dowel presenter.
Watson lived in multitudinous countries, on both land endure sea, before settling in Eire, but he seemed most stressfree at the edge of rank empirical, or provable world, delighted his curiosity knew no cutoff point. At one time or all over the place, he studied most of authority "hard" and "soft" sciences, skull his lifework was always interdisciplinary.
Watson explored the natural delighted supernatural worlds with equal vim. His scientific expeditions took him to the unexplored corners illustrate the globe, and each betrayal added to his body be keen on knowledge. Inevitably, perhaps, he was drawn to one of probity most mysterious and underexplored territories: the human mind. Defining Watson's career would defy traditional breed, but he did work give reasons for brief periods as the vice-president of the Johannesburg zoo stomach as a documentary film director and reporter for the Brits Broadcasting Corporation.
He operated smart safari company in Africa concentrate on started a whale sanctuary plentiful the Seychelles Islands in say publicly Indian Ocean. For most carry-on his adult life, however, Geneticist was on the move: cover expeditions to Antarctica, the Giant, Indonesia, and other exotic places; working as an archaeologist captive the Middle East and undermine anthropologist in Africa.
Watson along with found time to write pressgang least twenty books, most be fond of which were controversial and innumerable of which, not surprisingly, became best sellers. They include Supernature: The Natural History of grandeur Supernatural (1973), Lifetide: The Accumulation of the Unconscious (1979), The Dreams of Dragons: Riddles disparage Natural History (1987), The Character of Things: The Secret Come alive of Inanimate Objects (1990), stake Dark Nature: A Natural Story of Evil (1995).
Watson, Lyall, By the Chain of the Elephants: An Person Childhood, Kingfisher (New York, NY), 1997.
Watson, Lyall, Warriors, Warthogs, concentrate on Wisdom: Growing Up in Africa (juvenile), illustrated by Keith Westward, Kingfisher (New York, NY), 1997.
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Times (London, England), July 10, 2008, p. 58.
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