A magnificent two-volume biography.
Book reviews: ‘Charles Darwin: Voyaging’ • ‘Charles Darwin: The Power of Place’
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Book review: ‘The Last Wilderness’ by Neil Ansell
A journey into silence.
Book review: ‘Ravilious & Co.’ by Andy Friend
The Pattern of Friendship.
Book review: ‘The Dun Cow Rib’ by John Lister-Kaye
A very natural childhood.
Book review: ‘Improbable Destinies’ by Jonathan Losos
How predictable is evolution?
Book review: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett
15,000 years of urban life and death.
Book review: ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek’ by Annie Dillard
Pulitzer-Prize-winning ruminations on the natural world.
Book review: ‘Selected Letters of Philip Larkin’ (Anthony Thwaite, ed.)
Hugely entertaining correspondence from one of Britain’s most popular poets.
Book review: ‘Man of Iron’ by Julian Glover
Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain.
Book review: ‘The Making of the British Landscape’ by Nicholas Crane
How we humans shaped the landscape of Britain, from the Ice Age to the present.