Writing tagged: ‘reviews’
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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.
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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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Book review: ‘Improbable Destinies’ by Jonathan Losos
How predictable is evolution?
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Book review: ‘The Gallows Pole’ by Benjamin Myers
18th-century Yorkshire meets the Sopranos: intrigue, betrayal, murder, and revenge in the Calder Valley.