How we made the wilderness.
Reviews: Nature Writing
Book review: ‘On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects’ by Charles Darwin
Darwin responds to his critics.
Book Review: ‘The Edge of Silence’ by Neil Ansell
In search of the disappearing sounds of nature.
Book review: ‘A Year with Gilbert White’ by Jenny Uglow
A year in the life of the revered eighteenth-century country curate and naturalist Gilbert White
Book review: ‘The Running Hare’ by John Lewis-Stempel
The secret life of farmland.
Book review: ‘The Way of the Hermit’ by Ken Smith
40 years in the Scottish wilderness.
Book review: ‘Is a River Alive?’ by Robert Macfarlane
Rivers as living entities: preposterous animism or a useful metaphor?
Book review: ‘Lifelines’ by Julian Hoffman
Searching for home in the mountains of Greece.
Book review: ‘Belonging’ by Amanda Thomson
Natural histories of place, identity and home.
Book review: ‘Cairn’ by Kathleen Jamie
Magnificent short pieces about entering a new phase in one’s life.