Books by Frank Westerman

A philosphical journey hunting down the answers to who we are and what makes us human. With an ancient skull as his starting point, Westerman travels the globe, tracing the search for the first human being: the missing link between humans and apes.

' "When you touch a Lipizzaner, you're touching history," Westerman was once told. Carrying the reader across Europe, from imperial stables and stud farms to the controversial gene labs of today, Westerman asks, if animal breeders are so good at genetic engineering, why do attempts to perfect the human strain always end in tragedy?

Mount Ararat in Turkey is where, as biblical tradition has it, Noah's Ark ran aground and God made his covenant with mankind.

Draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes. This title takes the reader along to the dramatic final confrontation between writers and engineers that signalled the end of the Soviet empire.