From the Ice Age to the Present.
Reviews: History
Book review: ‘Ever Since Darwin’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Reflections in Natural History.
Book review: ‘Humanism’ by Stephen Law
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The Edge of the World’ by Michael Pye
How the North Sea made us who we are.
The Invention of Nature
The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science.
Book review: ‘Mr Key's Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives’ by Mr Frank Key
A medium-sized mass of potted nonsense.
Book Review: ‘Threads’ by Julia Blackburn
The Delicate Life of John Craske.
Book review: ‘The Invention of Science’ by David Wootton
A new history of the Scientific Revolution.
Book review: ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ by Rebecca Solnit
Getting lost as a way to finding yourself.
Book review: ‘A Place in the Country’ by W.G. Sebald
Essays on five writers and a painter who influenced Sebald’s work.