''I Have Landed'' (2002) is the 10th and final volume of collected essays by the
Harvard paleontologist
Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "This View of Life" in ''
Natural History'' magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27 years. The book deals, in typically discursive fashion, with themes familiar to Gould's writing: evolution and its teaching, science biography, probabilities and common sense.
The series of consecutive essays began in 1974, ending in January 2001 with the title essay "I have landed." The title refers to the very first words his grandfather Papa Joe wrote as he arrived on
Ellis Island
Ellis Island is a federally owned island in New York Harbor, situated within the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, that was the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States. From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 mil ...
,
New York as a newly arrived
Hungarian immigrant, September 11, 1901.
Reviews
A Grand Finale- by Robin McKie, ''
The Observer
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''.
Review of I Have Landed
- by Jim Walker
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2002 non-fiction books
American essay collections
Books by Stephen Jay Gould
English-language books
Works originally published in Natural History (magazine)
W. W. Norton & Company books