The book "Exploring Ethics" gives an interesting introduction and overview to ethics, with a nice starting point. Almond finds herself lost in a jungle and nearly dies of an accident. She is rescued by some members of a yet undiscovered tribe. During her stay with the tribe she has several discussions on ethics. This approach leads her to proclaim her own ideas on the subject. The result is an interesting mix of an overview of the history of ethics and her own argumentations.
Even though I quite often agree with Almond's views, I find her lines of argumentation (overall) pretty weak. Sometimes I even feel a bit emberassed when I do agree with her: at times her argumentation is nearly worthless.
Brenda Almond is a professor in the field of ethics, but I certainly hope not too manystudents get to learn from this book.

Following Almond's trail-blazing philosophical odyssey of Sophia, Exploring Philosophy, originally published in the Penguin 'self-starters' series, as plain 'Philosophy', comes the new volume, Exploring Ethics. If the first book contained a narrative root of a seeker, Sophia, searching out the issues with the aid of Almond's omniscient philosophical consultant, 'Q', Exploring Ethics finds the philosophically bemused in a metaphorical canyon surrounded by ethical (human) animals, each propounding their own doctrine of rights and wrongs. Imaginative and fluently written, subtly iconoclastic in form, and in content too, perhaps, Almond's book is certain to do well in the bookshops, if fated to be rather less welcome in some of the philosophical citadels of academia.