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Chasing Spring

Long Spring cover

For his book review this week Mark has picked Laurence Rose’s soon-to-be-published “The Long Spring; Tracking the Arrival of Spring Through Europe” from Bloomsbury Publishing.

Recording Rose’s adventures arising from his desire to explore “Europe’s remarkable heritage of exceptional places and the wildlife, traditions and people associated with them” he followed the arrival of Spring across the continent from it’s pre-arrival February beginnings in the north of Africa to its eventual appearance in the arctic.

The Long Shadows

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Libraries full of books have been, and could yet still be, written about the human and cultural devastation left behind following wars. Far fewer are available that take up the subject of the scars they leave upon the environment – and of these, only one, the just released “The Long Shadows; A Global Environmental History of the Second World War,” focuses exclusively on the global environmental effects of the largest war the world has yet seen.

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