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Writing tagged: ‘Thomas Browne’

Rook

Nature writing’s ill-defined, thriving ecosystem

There is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to whatever ‘nature writing’ is supposed to be these days. It might not all be to my personal taste, but such diversity has to be a good thing.

Published 28-Apr-2022
Filed under: Writing Tags: Barry Lopez, Darwin book, Gilbert White, John Fowles, Kathleen Jamie, Mark Cocker, nature writing, Richard Mabey, Richard Smyth, Ronald Blythe, taxonomy, Thomas Browne, Tim Dee, W.G. Sebald
‘The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century’ by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Book review: ‘The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century’ by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Looking at the world through the eyes of a 17th-century polymath.

Published 19-Oct-2020
Filed under: Writing Genres: People, Science Tags: reviews, Stephen Jay Gould, Thomas Browne, W.G. Sebald
Bluebells, Hardcastle Crags

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

Published 07-Jun-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Adam Nicolson, Amy Liptrot, Julia Blackburn, Julian Hoffman, Little Toller, Robert Macfarlane, Thomas Browne, Tim Dee
Thomas Browne

Newsletter No. 11: ‘Penguin eggs and yetis’

Sir Thomas Browne · Saturn · penguin eggs · heroes of science · evolution of languages · nature books · dna barcoding · periodic table · Alice Roberts · geology

Published 02-Dec-2017
Filed under: Writing Tags: Alice Roberts, Charles Darwin, dna, geology, GrrlScientist, language, On the Moor (book), prehistory, Stephen Jay Gould, Thomas Browne, Thony Christie, W.G. Sebald
Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne observes a murmuration of starlings

Quote from ‘Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk More Especially on the Birds and Fishes’.

Published 22-May-2015
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, proto-sidelines, science, starlings, Thomas Browne
Quakers' graves
Quakers' graves, Burton Woods

The iniquity of oblivion

In the fudge-box-pretty village of Burton on my native Wirral Peninsula lie two graves, their inscriptions now utterly lost.

Published 16-Jul-2013
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: entropy, religion, Thomas Browne, Wirral
Urnfield
Bronze Age Urnfield.

The Thomas Browne Affair

On the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne, and his tenuous connection with my local moor.

Published 27-Jun-2013
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: archaeology, Calder Valley, expeditions, favourite places, Hebden Bridge, On the Moor (book), the Moor, Thomas Browne, W.G. Sebald

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