Geography is Destiny: Britain and the World | Book Review
Ian Morris provides a most-useful survey history of Britain from geologic time to the present centered around three maps.
Book Review | The Cartographers
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd is a suspense novel with a cartographic twist.
Review | Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption
‘Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption’ by Mitchell Schwarzer is a superb example of urban history.
Review | Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error
This book sets out, in some nine chapters, both the ‘turbulent’ journey of that one species living 3.7 billion years ago to the 8.7 million today and the human activity threatening that biodiversity.
Review | Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
Talking at the Gates by James Campbell is a biography of James Baldwin, one of the most influential American writers of the twentieth century.