Category: Book Review

  • Good Neighbours

    Good Neighbours

    I am pleased to say I had a good few ideas for this week’s short blog (again Thursday not Wednesday, sorry), but after attending an excellent webinar from the University of Guelph’s History Roundtable yesterday, i had to get a few lines down about it. As a researcher who often looks backwards to go forwards,…

  • Savage Gods: Paul Kingsnorth may at last have found the real enemy of the environment, and they are words themselves.

                      Cooling off for six hours in a police cell in Esher, Surrey, in 1997, with King Arthur Pendragon taking up residence in the cell next door, I had a moment to reflect on the power of words, language and stories. We had both been arrested at…

  • Encounters In The Wild: Hare by Jim Crumley. A review of sorts

    “….what makes you think the Hare is done with night just because she kicked a badger in the ribs?” Ever since the days when I thought I might be a druid, the Hare, along with the bear and the wolf, has been an animal of  power and magic in my imagination. This triptych is with…

  • A journey through The Web of Life:

    This post is about why my blog is so named and how a connection, in this case with ideas in a book can be life changing. The first book that opened my eyes to science was Fritjof Capra’s book Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter (1996). If I’m honest, sitting here…

  • Europe’s Field Boundaries: a collossal new work (REVISED)

    This post first appeared on Feb 16 with details of how to order the work from NHBS at £399. I was promptly contacted by Georg Muller the author to tell me that neither he nor his publisher had supplied NHBS and certainly not at this price. If you would like to purchase the book please contact…