Reviews
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Book review: ‘All Among the Barley’ by Melissa Harrison
Rural idylls weren’t quite as idyllic as they seemed.
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Book review: ‘In My Mind’s Eye’ by Jan Morris
A thought diary.
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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: ‘Unnatural Selection’ by Katrina van Grouw
Art meets science in this stunningly illustrated book.
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Book review: ‘The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being’ by Alice Roberts
Evolution and the making of us.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Backyard’ by James T Costa
How small experiments led to a big theory.
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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 review: ‘Victorians Undone’ by Kathryn Hughes
Tales of the flesh in the age of decorum.
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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.