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THE WATER BOOK by Alok Jha
Sep 01, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
Water really is weird. As it freezes, it expands. It freezes faster when hot than when cold. Even just being a liquid at room temperature is strange when many heavier molecules become gaseous at much lower temperatures
BLOOD RANSOM: Stories from the Front Line in the War Against Somali Piracy by John Boyle
Sep 01, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
‘These are nothing like the swashbucklers from Pirates of the Caribbean.’ That’s what people used to say about Somali pirates. We were to understand that piracy had slowly built up an undeserved romantic reputation
CARTOPHILIA: Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland by Catherine Tatiana Dunlop
Sep 01, 2015
Written by
Kit Gillet
Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century was a melting pot of territorial conflicts waiting to explode, and few regions were more divisive than the area of Alsace-Lorraine, sandwiched between Germany and France
60 DEGREES NORTH: Around the World in Search of Home by Malachy Tallack
Sep 01, 2015
Written by
Mick Herron
One of the points of his journey, writes Malachy Tallack, was the certainty of its destination: by following the 60th parallel he would inevitably end where he started, home in Shetland
ADDICTED TO SHEEP directed by Magali Pettier
Aug 20, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
Straight outta Teesdale, Addicted to Sheep is a farming documentary like you’ve never seen before
DARJEELING: The Colourful History and Precarious Fate of the World’s Greatest Tea by Jeff Koehler
Aug 01, 2015
Written by
Jon Wright
The estates of Darjeeling produce less than one per cent of India’s tea and opinion is divided over the resulting beverage
PICTURING ENGLAND: The Photographic Collections of Historic England by Mike Evans, Gary Winter and Anne Woodward
Aug 01, 2015
Written by
Jon Wright
Historic England, formerly known as English Heritage, possesses an archive of eight million photographs. This treasure trove of images helps us to trace the development of the nation’s landscape and culture during the period since the invention of the camera
JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH by David Whitehouse
Aug 01, 2015
Written by
Jules Stewart
David Whitehouse discovers a world that is surprising and enigmatic, ‘astounding and significant’ and maintains that this is not just a story of rocks, minerals and ferocious temperatures, but also ‘about people, conflicts and tragedies, discoveries and despair’
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