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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 22 • 1874’

Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 22 • 1874’

Revising ‘Coral Reefs’ and ‘The Descent of Man’, continuing work on insectivorous plants, and a second dispute with St George Jackson Mivart.

Published 20-May-2024
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Science Tags: charles darwin, reviews
‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 2’

Book review: ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 2’

Virginia Woolf’s diaries for 1920–1924.

Published 28-Apr-2024
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir Tags: reviews, virginia woolf
‘Cuddy’ by Benjamin Myers

Book review: ‘Cuddy’ by Benjamin Myers

Something akin to a multi-media experience, mixing poetry, prayer, play-script, journal entries, and prose.

Published 10-Apr-2024
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Fiction Tags: ben myers, reviews
‘The Fran Lebowitz Reader’

Book review: ‘The Fran Lebowitz Reader’

Humorous journalism.

Published 29-Mar-2024
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Culture Tags: reviews
‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 21 • 1873’

Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 21 • 1873’

Back to botany.

Published 29-Mar-2024
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Science Tags: charles darwin, reviews
‘Buried’ by Prof. Alice Roberts

Book review: ‘Buried’ by Prof. Alice Roberts

An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain.

Published 22-Mar-2024
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Science Tags: alice roberts, reviews
‘The Golden Mole’ by Katherine Rundell

Book review:  ‘The Golden Mole’ by Katherine Rundell

Interesting facts about remarkable species.

Published 10-Mar-2024
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Nature Writing, Science Tags: reviews
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 20 • 1872

Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 20 • 1872’

Publication of the final edition of ‘The Origin of Species’, and of ‘The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals’.

Published 27-Feb-2024
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Science Tags: charles darwin, reviews
‘W. G. Sebald in Context’ by Uwe Schütte (ed.)

Book review: ‘W. G. Sebald in Context’ by Uwe Schütte (ed.)

A fascinating collection of academic essays about Sebald’s life, work and influences

Published 27-Feb-2024
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, Culture, Sebaldian Tags: reviews, sebald
‘The Notebook’ by Roland Allen

Book review: ‘The Notebook’ by Roland Allen

A history of thinking on paper.

Published 04-Feb-2024
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Culture, History Tags: reviews

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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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