Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution
explores the explorations of Wallace, Huxley, Darwin and Hooker. You don't see this in one book, and it is all very important and, for the moment, cheap at twice the price.
I've never read The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
but I hear it is popular among cat lovers.
Bonus book: Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
is about what was going on in the Bush White House that ultimately lead, as the title indicates, to the Great Land War in Asia that Trump is now about to escalate. Not science but I figured you might be interested.
Thanks Greg, I just purchased "Darwin's Armada" on Amazon. I like to have several books ahead of me and this helped.
Just ordered this one, thanks for the prompt.
Here are a couple by an author I have met, attended a seminar he gave:
The Silent Landscape: The Scientific Voyage of HMS Challenger
and his earlier:
Architects of Eternity: The New Science of Fossils