Nature & Place
Reviews of books about nature and/or place.
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Book review: ‘The Seabird’s Cry’ by Adam Nicolson
The lives of puffins, gannets, and other ocean voyagers.
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Book review: ‘Notes From Walnut Tree Farm’ by Roger Deakin
The jottings of a great observer of nature’s minutiae.
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Book review: ‘Watling Street’ by John Higgs
Travels through Britain and its ever-present past.
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Book review: ‘Our Place’ by Mark Cocker
Can we save Britain’s wildlife before it’s too late?
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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: ‘The Last Wilderness’ by Neil Ansell
A journey into silence.
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Book review: ‘The Dun Cow Rib’ by John Lister-Kaye
A very natural childhood.
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Book review: ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek’ by Annie Dillard
Pulitzer-Prize-winning ruminations on the natural world.
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Book review: ‘The Outrun’ by Amy Liptrot
Recovering from addiction in the far north.
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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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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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Book Review: ‘60 Degrees North’ by Malachy Tallack
Around the world in search of home.