Nature/Ecology
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Book review: ‘On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects’ by Charles Darwin
Darwin responds to his critics.
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Book Review: ‘The Edge of Silence’ by Neil Ansell
In search of the disappearing sounds of nature.
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Book review: ‘A Year with Gilbert White’ by Jenny Uglow
A year in the life of the revered eighteenth-century country curate and naturalist Gilbert White
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Book review: ‘Cairn’ by Kathleen Jamie
Magnificent short pieces about entering a new phase in one’s life.
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Book review: ‘Late Light’ by Michael Malay
The secret wonders of a disappearing world.
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Book review: ‘Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World’ by Barry Lopez
A thoughtfully observed posthumous collection of essays.
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Book review: ‘The Accidental Garden’ by Richard Mabey
Gardens, wilderness and the space in between.
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Book review: ‘The Golden Mole’ by Katherine Rundell
Interesting facts about remarkable species.
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Book Review: ‘One Midsummer’s Day’ by Mark Cocker
Swifts and the story of life on earth.
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Book review: ‘Darwin Comes to Town’ by Menno Schilthuizen
How the urban jungle drives evolution
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Book review: ‘Islands of Abandonment’ by Cal Flyn
Life in the post-human landscape.
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Book review: ‘The Diversity of Life’ by Edward O. Wilson
On our most valuable but least appreciated resource.