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A bigger boy did it and ran away

11th July, 202226th June, 2022 Cat James 0 Comments politics, women

I’m currently reading a novel called A Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy. Its protagonist, Connie, is

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Book review: A Year in the Woods, Colin Elford

17th February, 201314th February, 2014 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments book, elford, forestry, hampshire, ranger, review, wiltshire

A friend bought me ‘A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger‘, by Colin Elford. I picked

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Book review: Urban Mammals – a concise guide

6th November, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments books, mammals, ptes, review, wembridge

In 2010, the People’s Trust for Endangered Species produced Britain’s Mammals – a concise guide, which I said was “a rich

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Book Review: Flowers in the Field, Faith Anstey

12th May, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 2 Comments

The small learned society is a mainstay of British amateur natural history. Continuing the work of the gentleman-naturalists of the

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Book review: Britain’s Mammals – A Concise Guide

12th May, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 2 Comments

The People’s Trust for Endangered Species are really keen on mammals – did you know that they own a large

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Book review: Atlas of Rare Birds

12th May, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 1 Comment

The Ranger is a keen patron of second-hand book shops. When I find one, my first port of call is

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Book review: Dormice, by Pat Morris

9th October, 2011 Rowan Adams 0 Comments dormice

Review by Rowan Adams ‘Dormice’ was first published in 2004 as part of the British Natural History Series. This revised

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Book Review: ‘Owls’ by Chris Mead

3rd October, 2011 Matthew Chatfield 1 Comment owls

‘Owls’ is the first volume in the new British Natural History Collection from Whittet Books, and it seems very collectable

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Book Review: Flowers in the Field, Faith Anstey

23rd May, 2010 Matthew Chatfield 5 Comments flowers, plants

The small learned society is a mainstay of British amateur natural history. Continuing the work of the gentleman-naturalists of the

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Book review: The retreat of reason (Anthony Browne, 2006)

31st May, 2009 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments politics

A friend lent The Ranger a book for his entertainment; “The Retreat of Reason: Political Correctness and the Corruption of

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