History
Reviews of history books.
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Book review: ‘Sea Room’ by Adam Nicolson
The story of one man, three islands and half a million puffins.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 8, 1860’
Letters to and from Darwin in the immediate aftermath of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.
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Book review: ‘Dispelling the Darkness’ by John van Wyhe
Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.
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Book reviews: ‘Charles Darwin: Voyaging’ • ‘Charles Darwin: The Power of Place’
A magnificent two-volume biography.
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Book review: ‘The Making of the British Landscape’ by Nicholas Crane
How we humans shaped the landscape of Britain, from the Ice Age to the present.
