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The Brilliant Abyss
True Tales of Exploring the Deep Sea, Discovering Hidden Life and Selling the Seabed
2024 || Paperback || Helen Scales || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on the planet. This is the story of how we imagine, explore and exploit it.
For centuries, myth-makers and storytellers have concocted imaginary monsters of the deep, and now scientists are looking there to find bizarre, unknown species, chemicals to make new medicines, and to gain a greater understanding of how this world of ours works. With an average depth of 12,000 feet and chasms that plunge much deeper, it forms a frontier for new discoveries.
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Wilder
How Rewilding is Transforming Conservation and Changing the World
2024 || Paperback || Millie Kerr || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Mudlarking
Lost and Found on the River Thames
2024 || Paperback || Lara Maiklem || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION
THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR
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Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour
Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to ...
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The Unknown Universe
What We Don't Know About Time and Space in Ten Chapters
2024 || Paperback || Stuart Clark || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A groundbreaking and state-of-the-art guide to the Universe and how our latest deep space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know, and what we don't.