Browsing Tag Book Reviews
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11 Good Reasons to read before you hike: book review of Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane
How can we love a place that we do not know? This is a question at the heart of Robert MacFarlane’s much-heralded Landmarks. Simplistically billed as a glossary ...
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Book Review – On Track: Searching out the Bundian Way
John Blay’s outstanding piece of nature writing is essential reading for any bushwalker looking to experience country in a deeper way. This is especially true if you’ve spent ...
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Book Review: Not Birdwatching: reflections on noticing animals
How can noticing animals make you a better person? This book shows how, even in the densest urban environments, animals have the potential to affect our relationship to ...
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Book Review: Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
Wolf Totem traces the last throes of Inner Mongolia’s grasslands and its people’s nomadic lifestyle. It’s a poignant, if overly long, account of the consequences of displacing traditional ...
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Book Review – No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
What do mountaineering and globalisation have in common? This rollicking read, by New York Times journalist, Graham Bowley, tells the story of Himalayan mountain K2’s deadliest day when ...
