Explores what happens to places where people no longer live: Chernobyl, swathes of Detroit, Caribbean volcanoes, Scottish mining regions - redemptive, reflective.
Encompasses natural events and their consequences on a vast scale, showing how these have shaped human responses, trade, empires... Particularly trenchant as we try to understand climate cha... read more
A companion volume to the stunning Flora of the Silk Road that ravished us all in 2014. A selection of 600 of the most interesting wild flowers native to the Mediterranean and similar clima... read more