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Newsletter No. 15: Semi-immersed
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Book review: ‘All Among the Barley’ by Melissa Harrison
Rural idylls weren’t quite as idyllic as they seemed.
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 Macfarlane · swallows
Book review: ‘Rain’ by Melissa Harrison
Four walks in English weather.
Book review: ‘At Hawthorn Time’ by Melissa Harrison
An extraordinary modern rural novel.