There are, reportedly, more than one hundred thousand species of wasp. You might be forgiven for thinking that this is clearly far too many. In Wasp Disentanglement for Beginners, West Country writer and translator Gordon Vells reflects on nature and landscape and our relationship with both. Along the way, he takes in various diversions, including cloud chambers, wasp cartography, missed ice creams, Jupiter’s moons, dementia memories and the personality of rain.