“I was the most popular man in Oxford for full four & twenty hours.” — T.H. Huxley, following his debate with Bishop Wilberforce At 25, Thomas Henry Huxley returned from a four-year stint in the Royal Navy — he was assistant surgeon on a Royal Navy corvette exploring the South Seas from 1846 to 1850 […]
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The Ghost Forest’s Haunting Histories
Likely to become a classic, Greg King’s first solo book The Ghost Forest is aptly titled — a must-read that deftly chronicles how 96 percent of California’s old growth redwood forests fell to the saw. The award-winning journalist begins his complex, multi-generational narrative with his own entry into environmental activism. In 1986, while researching logging […]