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Making African Christianity: Africans Reimagining Their Faith in Colonial South Africa

contribution to the zoology of Africa. The title ‘African Naturalist’ seems ambiguous. Wood spent 50 years of his life in Africa, but he was not African. He rather needs to be seen as occupying a ‘Third Space’. This is not a standard science biography, such as Jane Carruthers’ Wildlife and Warfare: The Life of James Stevenson (2001), and importantly lacks information about the role local informants played in Wood’s knowledge production (see, for example, p. 82). The initial chapters have minor flaws such as typographical errors, incorrect dates (e.g., pp. 33–34) and word repetitions. The biography is worth recommending for readers interested in the history of Malawi, the Seychelles, and zoology; and it may inform historians working within History of Science and Knowledge. The inclusion of various genres of source material, the extensive notes and bibliography may lead to subsequent studies and, as this book shows, biographies can certainly inform historians, raise their interest and initiate a research process.