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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain

A celebration of all things natatorial.

Published 18-Dec-2011
Notes From Walnut Tree Farm

Book review: ‘Notes From Walnut Tree Farm’ by Roger Deakin

The jottings of a great observer of nature’s minutiae.

Published 18-Dec-2011

A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Essays

Dawkins demonstrating that he can write wonderfully sensitively, as well as rant.

Published 18-Dec-2011

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Dawkins returns to what he's best at.

Published 18-Dec-2011

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life

Dawkins's lavishly illustrated magnum opus-cum-coffee table book.

Published 18-Dec-2011

Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media

An excellent exposé of the failure of the newspaper industry.

Published 18-Dec-2011
‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ by Charles Darwin

Book review: ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ by Charles Darwin

Darwin's first masterpiece.

Published 18-Dec-2011
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Nature Writing, Science Tags: charles darwin, hms beagle, reviews

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 7: 1858–1859

Darwin's correspondence leading up to the publication of On the Origin of Species.

Published 18-Dec-2011

The Moonstone

Victorian blockbuster.

Published 18-Dec-2011

Imperial Ambitions: Conversations with Noam Chomsky on the Post-9/11 World

What America (and the rest) is really up to.

Published 18-Dec-2011

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On the Moor

On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
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