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Tag: nature

Review: Human/Nature by Jane Rawson

What do we mean when we say ‘nature’?

Animals, Conservation, Ethics, Extinction, nature, Nonfiction

Review: The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger

Will make you see your house plants in a new light.

Botany, nature, Nonfiction, Plants, science, US

Review: Deep Water by James Bradley

How do you tell a story as big as the ocean?

Australian, Climate change, History, Marine science, nature, Nonfiction, Oceans

Review: How Far The Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler

Science meets memoir.

Essays, Marine biology, nature, Nonfiction, science, Science writing

Review: Banzeiro Òkòtó by Eliane Brum (translated by Diane Whitty)

Where the river goes savage.

Brazil, Climate change, Environment, nature, Nonfiction

Review: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà (translated by Mara Feye Lethem)

A short, elemental novel pulsing with the rhythms of time.

Contemporary, Environment, Fiction, Historical, nature, Novel, Spain

Review: An Immense World by Ed Yong

A majestic and intimate travelogue of animals’ sensory worlds.

Animals, nature, Nonfiction, science

Review: Otherlands by Thomas Halliday

A safari through time with an urgent message about the future.

Dinosaurs, Fossils, nature, nature writing, Nonfiction, Palaeontology, science

Review: Under A White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert

A gripping, frightening and weirdly hopeful look at the lengths we’ll have to go to to fix global problems.

Climate change, Environment, Extinction, nature, Nonfiction

Review: Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

A virtuosic collection of essays about the meanings we invest in nature and animals.

Animals, British, Climate change, Environment, Essays, nature, nature writing, Nonfiction

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