‘The way a person cuts and stacks wood can tell you a great deal about him,’ declares Lars Mytting in this improbable international bestseller – which is somewhat worrying to me as I survey the uncouth heap of beech in my ramshackle woodshed. My problem may be that I do not have the advantage of […]
Richard Mabey is our own Green Man. Who else has explored the world of British plants (and other countryside matters) so knowledgeably with such persistence and sheer enthusiasm, drawing so many of us along with him? Who else can write about nature with such fluency? In nearly twenty books, including such tours de force as […]
There is more to lions than meets the eye. Given what does, this is surprising. Formidably strong, prone to violent mayhem on an expansive scale, the lion is surely equipped to look after itself. Tragically, that is not the case. Hemmed in by mankind, the African lion is in trouble, on the same fatal trajectory […]
This book’s subtitle, ‘The Mysteries of Loch Ness’, lets slip the fact that the possible existence of a monster in those deep, cold Scottish waters is merely one of the enigmas it addresses – and not necessarily the most significant, either. The first two hundred pages of this lively and entertaining account are essentially a […]
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Knowledge of Sufism increased markedly with the publication in 1964 of The Sufis, by Idries Shah. Nowadays his writings, much like his father’s, are dismissed for their Orientalism and inaccuracy.
@fitzmorrissey investigates who the Shahs really were.
Fitzroy Morrissey - Sufism Goes West
Fitzroy Morrissey: Sufism Goes West - Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah by Nile Green
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Rats have plagued cities for centuries. But in Baltimore, researchers alighted on one surprising solution to the problem of rat infestation: more rats.
@WillWiles looks at what lessons can be learned from rat ecosystems – for both rats and humans.
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Will Wiles: Puss Gets the Boot - Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B ...
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Twisters features destructive tempests and blockbuster action sequences.
@JonathanRomney asks what the real danger is in Lee Isaac Chung's disaster movie.
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