Writing tagged: ‘Thomas Browne’
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Nature writing’s ill-defined, thriving ecosystem
There is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to whatever ‘nature writing’ is supposed to be these days. It might not all be to my personal taste, but such diversity has to be a good thing.
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Book review: ‘The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century’ by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Looking at the world through the eyes of a 17th-century polymath.
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Newsletter No. 16: ‘Snippets of nature writing’
Sidelines • Robert Macfarlane • Julian Hoffman • Amy Liptrot • Little Toller • Sir Thomas Browne • Tim Dee • Adam Nicolson • Julia Blackburn • and more…
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Newsletter No. 11: ‘Penguin eggs and yetis’
Sir Thomas Browne • Saturn • penguin eggs • heroes of science • evolution of languages • nature books • dna barcoding • periodic table • Alice Roberts • geology and more…
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Sir Thomas Browne observes a murmuration of starlings
Quote from ‘Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk More Especially on the Birds and Fishes’.
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The iniquity of oblivion
In the fudge-box-pretty village of Burton on my native Wirral Peninsula lie two graves, their inscriptions now utterly lost.
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The Thomas Browne Affair
On the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne, and his tenuous connection with my local moor.