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Forgotten Footprints
In humankind’s history there have been many ages of discovery, but few that surmise the arduousness and strength of human endurance than Antarctica. Yet Antarctica, much as the race to…
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A Life on our Planet
I think it would be an underestimation to suggest that David Attenborough is one of the leading environmentalists in the country or the planet. His career on television has spanned…
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It’s the End of the World
Like so many others enduring 2020 I really wasn't sure I wanted to read Adam Roberts' It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? but…
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The Secret Life of Fungi
A well-spent rainy afternoon for me is relaxing in my reading chair, large quantities of tea and a good book, maybe a sandwich, which on this occasion was a cheese…
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The Seafarers
Stephen Rutt has written a devotional tribute to two liminal tribes, seabirds and the ornithologists who have sought to unearth some of their secrets. In this illuminating book, you will…
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Hurricanes Never Apologize
I find it refreshing to read such work as Carrie Magness Radna’s in Hurricanes Never Apologize. Within this short book, a collection of thirty-one poems there’s beauty in its simplicity.…
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Irreplaceable
I first happened across Julian Hoffman earlier this year whilst supporting the campaign to stop the ill-advised M4 Black Route around Newport. The campaign was getting headier and I’d heard…
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The Battle to Save the Orang-utan (and all of its friends…)
Deforestation, habitat loss, threatened species, extinctions. These words were alien to me as a seven-year-old, but something blurry happened in about 1995 that brought these things to my attention. I…