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Book Reviews by subject:
Geology

December 2023 Issue

John Gribbin

Flames Beneath His Feet

Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes

By Clive Oppenheimer

October 2022 Issue

Will Wiles

All That Glitters

Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones

By Hettie Judah

September 2021 Issue

Nigel Andrew

What Will Survive of Us?

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters

By Henry Gee

April 2020 Issue

Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Generation Plastic

Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils

By David Farrier

February 2019 Issue

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

False Starts

Origins: How the Earth Made Us

By Lewis Dartnell

February 2019 Issue

Will Wiles

Strolling in the Deep

Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet

By Will Hunt

February 2016 Issue

Michael Burleigh

Unobtainium

The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

By David S Abraham

October 2009 Issue

Brenda Maddox

She Sold Seashells

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

By Shelley Emling

Remarkable Creatures

By Tracy Chevalier

September 2008 Issue

Fergus Fleming

Footloose

Racing with Death: Douglas Mawson – Antarctic Explorer

By Beau Riffenburgh

October 2008 Issue

Brenda Maddox

Reading the Rocks

Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

By Martin J S Rudwick

Alexandra Harris

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night…

Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World

By Gillen D’Arcy Wood

Jan Morris

Seeking His Quarry

Underlands: A Journey through Britain’s Lost Landscape

By Ted Nield

February 2014 Issue

Michael Burleigh

My Precious

Gold: The Race for the World’s Most Seductive Metal

By Matthew Hart