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Reviews: Travel

‘The Gold Machine’ by Iain Sinclair

Book review: ‘The Gold Machine’ by Iain Sinclair

Tracking the ancestors from Highlands to coffee colony

Published 29-Aug-2025
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Travel Tags: reviews
‘Bibliomaniac’ by Robin Ince

Book review: ‘Bibliomaniac’ by Robin Ince

Writer and comedian tours 104 bookshops, buying far too many books as he does so.

Published 17-Aug-2025
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Biography/Memoir, Travel Tags: reviews
‘Is a River Alive?’ by Robert Macfarlane

Book review: ‘Is a River Alive?’ by Robert Macfarlane

Rivers as living entities: preposterous animism or a useful metaphor?

Published 23-May-2025
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Nature Writing, Travel Tags: reviews, robert macfarlane
‘Under a Metal Sky’ by Philip Marsden

Book review: ‘Under a Metal Sky’ by Philip Marsden

A journey through minerals, greed and wonder.

Published 12-May-2025
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: History, Science, Travel
‘Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World’ by Barry Lopez

Book review: ‘Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World’ by Barry Lopez

A thoughtfully observed posthumous collection of essays.

Published 01-Sep-2024
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Culture, Nature Writing, Travel Tags: reviews
‘Radical By Nature’ by James T. Costa

Book Review: ‘Radical By Nature’ by James T. Costa

The revolutionary life of Alfred Russel Wallace.

Published 14-May-2023
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Science, Travel Tags: alfred russel wallace, charles darwin, reviews
‘Border’ by Kapka Kassabova

Book review: ‘Border’ by Kapka Kassabova

A journey to the edge of Europe.

Published 13-Mar-2022
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: History, Travel Tags: reviews
‘Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere’ by Jan Morris

Book review: ‘Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere’ by Jan Morris

Place writing at its finest, and most personal.

Published 09-Dec-2021
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: History, Travel Tags: reviews
‘Unofficial Britain’ by Gareth E. Rees

Book review: ‘Unofficial Britain’ by Gareth E. Rees

Journeys through unexpected places.

Published 25-Jun-2021
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: History, Travel Tags: reviews
‘Gone’ by Michael Blencowe

Book review: ‘Gone’ by Michael Blencowe

A search for what remains of the world’s extinct creatures.

Published 23-Feb-2021
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: History, Nature Writing, Science, Travel Tags: reviews

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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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