Writing tagged: ‘Robert Macfarlane’
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Book review: ‘The Gifts of Reading’ by Robert Macfarlane
The joy of giving books as presents.
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Rich Text newsletter No. 37: ‘These people knew mammoths!’
Ice age art • Robert Macfarlane • Kathleen Jamie • medieval poems • lichen • Barbarian Conspiracy • the Shipping Forecast • escaping the entropy • and more…
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Book review: ‘Is a River Alive?’ by Robert Macfarlane
Rivers as living entities: preposterous animism or a useful metaphor?
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Book review: ‘Mountains of the Mind’ by Robert Macfarlane
A history of a fascination.
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Newsletter No. 20: ‘Giving it the David Attenboroughs’
In which I gatecrash a podcast, and share cool stuff by the likes of: Melissa Harrison • Luke Turner • Werner Herzog • Merlin Sheldrake • Robert Macfarlane • Gaby Wood • Caught by the River • Philip Hoare • and a host of talented extras.
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Book review: ‘Ness’ by Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood
A haunting prose-poem (I think).
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Newsletter No. 17: ‘Scoffing all the berries’
Island Review • Julian Hoffman • John Green • Dorothea Lange • Jonathan Meades • Rebecca Solnit • Willowherb Review • Robert Macfarlane • Dave Winer • Horatio Clare • Mark Cocker • Steve Rutt • and more…
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Book review: ‘Underland’ by Robert Macfarlane
A deep time journey.
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23 June 2019
A topaz treasure, and suppressed claustrophobic memories.
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Newsletter No. 16: ‘Snippets of nature writing’
Sidelines • Robert Macfarlane • Julian Hoffman • Amy Liptrot • Little Toller • Sir Thomas Browne • Tim Dee • Adam Nicolson • Julia Blackburn • and more…
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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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Newsletter No. 4: ‘Paint to pufferfish’
Robert Macfarlane • Hilary Mantel • Martha Sprackland • Viking wool • Charles Darwin’s reading habits • human evolution • praying to Elrond • drawing • making ink • Rebecca Solnit • insectivorous plants • do pufferfish hold their breath? • and more…