Richard Carter
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Book review: ‘Mr Key’s Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives’ by Mr Frank Key
A medium-sized mass of potted nonsense.
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Darwin on earthworms: small change writ large
A review of Charles Darwin’s wonderful final book, ‘The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits’.
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Book review: ‘Darwin and Lady Hope: the Untold Story’ by L.R. Croft
A dreadful book attempting to breathe new life into the long-discredited myth of Charles Darwin’s deathbed conversion to evangelical Christianity. File under ‘Fiction’.
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Nature Book Reader
My recommendations for some top nature reading have been included in the updated Caught by the River Nature Book Reader webzine.
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Bacon and X
Not wishing to boast, but Richard Carter didn’t get C-minuses—and he certainly didn’t get SEE MEs.
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Invertigo
I’ve never seen stars remotely approaching those in Anglesey. There are so damn many of them. Thousand upon thousand. Too many to count.
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LRB letter: ‘Weather-forecasting frogs’
On the unlikely 17th and 18th-century German fashion of keeping tree frogs to forecast the weather.
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Pleasures of August
August on the Dee Marshes and the Pennine Moors, including encounters with a bolshie pheasant, a practising peregrine, and a flirty wheatear.
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Dipper waiting
With half an hour to kill in Hebden Bridge, I head over to the river to see if there are any dippers around.
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Life’s too short for pristine notebooks
How I eventually overcame my reluctance to write in my precious notebooks.
