Writing
Filter writing: Sidelines (blog) • Newsletters • Reviews
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Book review: ‘In Patagonia’ by Bruce Chatwin
Wandering about Patagonia with no clear plan in mind.
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Book review: ‘Heligoland’ by Jan Rüger
Britain, Germany, and the struggle for the North Sea.
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Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson
A long-overdue biography of the Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.
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Book reviews: ‘Charles Darwin: Voyaging’ • ‘Charles Darwin: The Power of Place’
A magnificent two-volume biography.
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Newsletter No. 12: ‘Unspeakable things beneath the shrubs’
Mark E Smith • Alan Bennett • Carl Linnaeus • Ronald Blythe • human evolution • flu epidemics • Great Exhibition of the North • Charles Darwin • insects • introverts • Virginia Woolf • John Tyndall • and more…
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Book review: ‘The Last Wilderness’ by Neil Ansell
A journey into silence.
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Book review: ‘Ravilious & Co.’ by Andy Friend
The Pattern of Friendship.
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Book review: ‘The Dun Cow Rib’ by John Lister-Kaye
A very natural childhood.
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High tides and volant voles
An unplanned visit to the flooded Dee Marshes is rewarded with a wildlife spectacle.
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2017: a year in photos
My seventh annual video slideshow review of the year.
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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 and more…
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Newsletter No. 10: ‘Book launch’
Announcing the launch of my book ‘On the Moor: science, history and nature on a country walk’ 158 years to the day after the publication of Charles Darwin‘s ‘On the Origin of Species’!