Cryptoforestry

As an additional window on the history of our most basic foodstuffs I have compiled a list of etymological first-use.  It was here but I n...

R.S.R Fitter's ' London's Natural History ' (1945) is what we would now call an environmental history of Greater London. ...

James C. Scott on Jared Diamond . Nothing new really but it sounds better when it comes from him. He imagines he can triangulate his way ...

Jarod Diamond's latest book (the world until yesterday) I have not read but I have read reviews and it was trashed by almost everyone. C...

Betty Meggers ' book 'Amazonia: Man and culture in a counterfeit paradise' for a long time represented the Amazonian orthodoxy: ...

In 1855 Richard Deakin published a study of the wild flowers growing in and on the Colosseum in Rome. It is available online . There was a...

Carl Sauer, cultural geographer, author of the brilliant New Spanish Main on the Spanish landnam of America after Columbus, also wr...

Nature has a new article tracing Western perception on past population level and societal complexity in the Amazon: Studies dating bac...

"Never shall I forget my first sight of the Somme in summer-time. I had left it mud, nothing but water, shell-holes and mud—the most ...

Found on Ebay, if the postage wasn't so prohibitive (22+dollars) I would make a bid.

Am reading Stephen J. Pyne's book 'Vestal Fire, An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounte...

In the last post I ran 21 recipes of BBC's James Martin through Map your Recipe and exclaimed how surprised I was with the variety o...

More Meta-recipematics with Map your Recipe .  James Martin, tv-chef and presenter of BBc's Saturday Kitchen Live, has a new pro...

The above table compiled by the Offwell Woodland and Wildlife Trust shows clearly that native trees in park bring with them a higher lev...

Further transcripts from a Derive, acquired by Time Travel. Slotervaart Fashion Centre UpComing . An important academic paper, authored...