Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on The World's Far Corners and Deepest Depths
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Underland
Robert Macfarlane’s Underland explores the deep subterranean realms of the earth, blending natural history, archaeology, and human myth.
Discussed“well let's talk very specifically about this book about underland”
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Disappearing Earth
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips is a compelling novel that explores the mysterious disappearance of two young sisters in the remote and rugged landscape of Kamchatka, Russia, examining the profound ripples the event creates through a close-knit community.
Recommended“the novel again is called disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips”
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The Lost Words
Discussed“I mentioned earlier you wrote uh a children's book because it sounds like with this children's book you're saying that not only are these places disappearing but the words with which we describe these places are going away”
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Horizon
Discussed“and I think here of big books like Barry Lopez's Horizon Richard PO is the over story which actually together kind of make a a trip tich here you have the overstory The Horizon and and the underland”
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The Overstory
The Overstory by Richard Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that follows several Americans whose lives connect through trees and their deep relationship with the natural world.
Discussed“and I think here of big books like Barry Lopez's Horizon Richard PO is the over story which actually together kind of make a a trip tich here you have the overstory The Horizon and and the underland”
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Outrages
Outrages by Naomi Wolf is a historical nonfiction book that examines same-sex desire and state suppression in nineteenth-century Britain.
Discussed“um so I reviewed two books in the last few weeks I reviewed Naomi Wolf's book outrages which has been heavily criticized for containing some pretty serious errors”
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Reckoning
Discussed“okay so this week I I reviewed a book that I had I took some issues with and it's called Reckoning and it's by a lawyer and legal scholar and philosopher named Linda hman”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“his previous books include mountains of the Mind the wild places the old ways and one that I particularly want to talk about a few more but one called The Lost words a children's book”
“his previous books include mountains of the Mind the wild places the old ways and one that I particularly want to talk about a few more but one called The Lost words a children's book”
“his previous books include mountains of the Mind the wild places the old ways and one that I particularly want to talk about a few more but one called The Lost words a children's book”
“we've had this Resurgence going on for 15 years which I think happened in America in around the time of Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez um a bit earlier Annie dad's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”
“we've had this Resurgence going on for 15 years which I think happened in America in around the time of Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez um a bit earlier Annie dad's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”
“Robert McFarland is the author of most recently underland a deep time Journey”