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Book review: Darwin’s Camera, by Phillip Prodger
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Book review: Darwin’s Camera, by Phillip Prodger

Darwin’s Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution Phillip Prodger Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009 See library catalogue…

3 March 2020

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Book review: A Prickly Affair – My Life with Hedgehogs, by Hugh Warwick.
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Book review: A Prickly Affair – My Life with Hedgehogs, by Hugh Warwick.

I’ve always had a soft spot for hedgehogs, growing up they were one of the only wild animals I experienced…

22 November 2019

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Book Review: The Secret Life of the Owl, by John Lewis-Stempel
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Book Review: The Secret Life of the Owl, by John Lewis-Stempel

A wise old owl sat in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke…

22 November 2019

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Book review: Bird Therapy, by Joe Harkness
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Book review: Bird Therapy, by Joe Harkness

World Mental Health Day is 10th October every year.  By happy coincidence, I picked up a new acquisition from the…

29 October 2019

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Book Review: The James Losh Diaries
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Book Review: The James Losh Diaries

The James Losh Diaries 1802-1833. Life and Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Newcastle-upon-Tyne. By Deborah Smith. Cambridge Scholars publishing. £64.99. In…

14 August 2019

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Book review: How to be an Urban Birder
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Book review: How to be an Urban Birder

David Lindo, Princeton University Press 2018, 232 pages Jamie Oliver commends this attractively produced and very accessible softback publication, now…

21 May 2019

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  My House of Sky – The Life and Work of J. A. Baker Hetty Saunders has created this biography…

26 October 2018

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