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Crossed Off the Map: Travels in Bolivia by Shafik Meghji

An almost certainly apocryphal story about Queen Victoria’s defacement of a map of South America which gives the superb Crossed Off the Map: Travels in Bolivia its title. According to the legend…

By Ian Tattum April 18, 2022BooksNo Comments

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Shalimar: A Story of Place & Migration by Davina Quinlivan

I wasn't sure what to expect with Shalimar: A Story of Place & Migration, the wonderful debut novel from author Davina Quinlivan. I've read a fair bit on areas such as…

By Tom Stanger March 16, 2022BooksNo Comments

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Finding The Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

The Yucatan jungle is on either side of the road as I finish reading Finding the Mother Tree. Throughout my four-hour journey through the Mexican south, I’ve been idly looking…

By Deborah Gray February 18, 2022BooksNo Comments

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A Winter Walk Around St Ives

My eyes lighted on something dark, in the distance, on the beach. Coming closer, I saw it was a dead porpoise. Mouth frozen in a smile, skin radiating a silvery…

By Gayle Wood February 15, 2022WordsNo Comments

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Aurochs and Auks: Essays on Mortality and Extinction by John Burnside

This book is not an easy read. This is probably as it should be, given the subject material – the death of the individuals, species and the planet, and the…

By Lisa Tulfer February 8, 2022BooksNo Comments

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The Ghost in the Garden by Jude Piesse

In her wonderful book, The Ghost in the Garden: in Search of Darwin’s Lost Garden, author Jude Piesse observes that gardens have the unique distinction of being created by people as…

By Lake Markham January 29, 2022BooksNo Comments

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Deliverance

For days there had been no signs of human life. Pine forests shrouded in snow and half-frozen lakes glittering in the sun stretched into an unspoilt Canadian wilderness. It was…

By Gayle Wood January 15, 2022WordsNo Comments

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I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain

Anita Sethi begins her book I Belong Here with an account of racial abuse. Travelling on the TransPennine Express train, a man insults her, saying, amongst other things too vile…

By Deborah Gray December 15, 2021BooksNo Comments

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The Little Grey Men. The adventures of gnomes as a prophetic eco-manifesto.

Denys Watkins- Pitchford, alias BB, writer and artist, spent his latter years living in a roundhouse, in Sudborough, in Northamptonshire, the county where he grew up and spent most of…

By Ian Tattum December 7, 2021WordsNo Comments

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Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes

In Arthur Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation, he remarks that the permanence of a mountain seems to structure our understanding of the natural world, thereby conditioning the eye…

By Lake Markham November 11, 2021BooksNo Comments