Save the salmon and save the planet; it works the other way round too. Kurlansky is thorough, thoughtful and fascinating.
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This is an astonishing book that will change our understanding of the world in dizzying ways. Wohlleben's 'wood-wide web' is but a part of the phantasmagoric abundance of fungal life that Sh... read more
PB, as a parent and a volunteer at his local school, takes on the modern child's startling alienation from nature. Some may remember the controversy a few years ago when OUP deleted from the... read more
Its second subtitle is "an adventurous history of botany". JG is a scientist and an historian of exploration (his "The Rattlesnake: A Voyage of Discovery to the Coral Sea" was excellent).
A cultural history of twelve flowers - but this is not a flimsy loveliness but full of fascination and bite. Radioactivity, the slave trade, global warming, that old charmer Henry VIII, all ... read more
H is for hawk-eyed: Helen MacDonald follows her sensational memoir with a collection of essays about the world around her.
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Part memoir of the author's relationship with his father and part natural and cultural history of the world's most mysterious fish. No human has ever seen eels reproduce and we don't underst... read more