October 2015
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Darwin on earthworms: small change writ large
A review of Charles Darwin’s wonderful final book, ‘The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits’.
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Book review: ‘Darwin and Lady Hope: the Untold Story’ by L.R. Croft
A dreadful book attempting to breathe new life into the long-discredited myth of Charles Darwin’s deathbed conversion to evangelical Christianity. File under ‘Fiction’.
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Nature Book Reader
My recommendations for some top nature reading have been included in the updated Caught by the River Nature Book Reader webzine.
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Bacon and X
Not wishing to boast, but Richard Carter didn’t get C-minuses—and he certainly didn’t get SEE MEs.
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Book Review: ‘60 Degrees North’ by Malachy Tallack
Around the world in search of home.
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Invertigo
I’ve never seen stars remotely approaching those in Anglesey. There are so damn many of them. Thousand upon thousand. Too many to count.