Book Reviews

Peter Frankopan’s hugely ambitious latest book looks at how human history has been shaped by climate, geography and natural disasters…

In his final book, David Roberts paints a fresh, complex portrait of Henry George ‘Gino’ Watkins and his trek across…

Caroline Dodds Pennock breaks the stereotype that Native Americans were passive, in this impressive retelling of the relationship between them…

Christopher J Preston, a professor of environmental philosophy at the University of Montana and author of Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries…

Christopher J Preston lays bare the stark details of extinction, with glimmers of hope for wildlife conservation, in this fascinating…

Thomas Halliday’s Otherlands takes us on an immersive tour of bizarre prehistoric lands and helps to ease our minds into…

Johan Eklöf shows how vital darkness is in our overly artificial world Rousseau, the 18th-century philosopher, didn’t believe that God…

Indian physicist, activist and author Vandana Shiva reflects on her decades of work on climate change, food and health and…

Raynor Winn tells the emotional and inspiring journey of walking Scotland’s Cape Wrath Trail with her husband, who was suffering…

EAS Cooper tells an unusually gripping tale of his time spent living with the Inuit on Greenland’s coast and his…

Paul Pettitt leads a stroll through time with a focus on our ancestral history and how our DNA has underpinned…

Paul Clements, a travel writer, biographer and author of Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides, A Biography, selects from his…