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Posted on 27-Sep-201627-Sep-2016

Notes from Nell Carr Farm

Notes on Notes From Walnut Tree Farm

‘Notes from Walnut Tree Farm’ is by far my favourite Roger Deakin book. His assembled notes and jottings are packed full of ideas. The signal-to-noise ratio is phenomenal.

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RECENT REVIEWS

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  • Book review: ‘The Gallows Pole’ by Benjamin Myers
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RECENT NOTEBOOK ENTRIES

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    In which I geek-out over some high-tech print-production apparatus.
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    2017 is to be my ‘Year of Getting Stuff Out There’.
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  • Newsletter No. 7: Hacked and hurt by time
    John Tyndall · Galápagos cormorants · why English is so odd · Thoreau & Darwin · anthropological discoveries · mass-extinction hyperbole · WG Sebald · yellow rattle · Inigo Thomas · Mars exploration
  • Newsletter No. 6: A borrowed dog
    woodpeckers · ambrotype portraits · W.G. Sebald · a deserted hamlet · mission creep · prime meridians · W.H. Hudson · podcasts · street photography · bonkers · tapirs · coiners
  • Newsletter No. 5: Incongruous owl
    dawn chorus · Simon Armitage · the invention of the telescope · huge, sprawling collaborations · Withnail & I · book smells · re-assembling Darwin’s research notes · converting walks into words · Daniel Dennett · writing letters · humanist politics · dentistry with stone tools · analysing penguin poo · Melissa Harrison · Robert […]
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