Geographical Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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‘For too long, Africa has been treated as a buzzword for poverty, strife, corruption, civil wars and large expanses of arid red soil where nothing but misery grows,’ writes Dipo Faloyin. Africa Is Not a Country aims to set that record straight Our review: https://t.co/ChUXDO15Wx https://t.co/GXYp1mczr8

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In this edited extract from his new book, Return to My Trees, Matthew Yeomans reflects on the National Forest for Wales initiative, which was launched in the spring of 2020, and asks whether it can help to forge a new national identity https://t.co/IjIWb63fCl

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How animal senses reveal different worlds. Review of Ed Yong's fascinating new book An Immense World https://geographical.co.uk/book-reviews/how-animal-senses-reveal-different-worlds https://t.co/n1Z16K4BV6

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Review: The Last Days of The Dinosaurs by Riley Black https://t.co/vEhcBRGM6S

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Geographical's Book of the Month - review of I Don't Want To Talk About Home. Suad Aldarra's memoir, I Don't Want To Talk About Home, follows the author's long search for belonging on leaving her home country of Syria https://t.co/KYUPRXpezq

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In Edible Economics, Ha-Joon Chang presents an easily digestible and occasionally mouthwatering introduction to some of the more challenging, and misunderstood, economic ideas https://t.co/vdDBFClG8V

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Simon Sharpe, economist, senior fellow at the World Resource Institute and author of Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics and Diplomacy of Climate Change, selects from his library some of his favourite and formative reads https://t.co/GlHnKBpMOj

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Incredibly, despite our dependence on it, we don’t even really know what soil is, but ‘does not exist for our benefit,’ George Monbiot reminds us in his new book Regenesis Read the review here: https://geog.gr/Regenesis https://t.co/Y6VFbDr3X2

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COMING SOON! The next episode of The Geographical Podcast will be available later today, featuring our May cover story on the geographies of sexuality, plus experts on canned hunting in South Africa. Stay tuned... https://t.co/901vkqgdni

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In her book, An Intimate History of Evolution, Alison Bashford delves into the Huxley dynasty. Specifically focusing on Thomas Henry Huxley and his grandson Julian Sorrel, she unravels their joint legacy which help redefine science and evolution https://t.co/GOphSUiwoe