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Non-fiction memoir
Donald A. Mackenzie: Inventing accuracy (1990, MIT Press)
"In his eye-opening books The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs and The Natural Navigator, Tristan Gooley helped readers reconnect …
A fantastic book, persuasively and informatively written. It gives several points of view about nature conservation in the Cumbrian uplands, and informs the reader about the compromises between them, while still being accessible and a joy to read. Can’t recommend it highly enough.
A pleasant read, although it would have significantly benefited from including the photos inline (this is easy to do in the ebook edition). Without that, and despite the author’s best efforts at textually describing flowers, it’s not easy to learn/recognise what flowers the text refers to.
