Nature & Place
Reviews of books about nature and/or place.
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Book review: ‘On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects’ by Charles Darwin
Darwin answers his critics re. the evolution of complex adaptations.
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Book review: ‘The Gold Machine’ by Iain Sinclair
Tracking the ancestors from Highlands to coffee colony.
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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: ‘Cairn’ by Kathleen Jamie
Magnificent short pieces about entering a new phase in one’s life.
