'Make things as simple as possible - but not simpler. It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. Write first; think later' Alan Macfarlane has spent sixty years trying to understand the world. He has studied for two doctorates at Oxford and London and traveled through Nepal, Japan and China. In 'Reflections for Rosa' he tells us what he has found out about asking questions, guessing, testing, assembling evidence, creative writing and the conditions of creativity. Alan Macfarlane is a retired Professor of Anthropology at Cambridge University. The book complements his 'Letters to Lily.'