Robert Macfarlane
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Books: Is A River Alive? (WIP) Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways, etc. | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Nature, climate, people | Prof @Cambridge_uni
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āMore journalists have been killed in the first 10 weeks of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire yearā,
said ā¦Committee to Protect Journalistsā© theguardian.com/world/2023/decā¦
Happy Midwinter Eve to you all.
Itās also the opening day of Susan Cooperās great midwinter novel The Dark Is Rising.
Listen along to the 1st episode of our ā¦ā¦podcast adaptation.
āThis night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imaginingā¦ā
šš bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ā¦
Helloāā@simonmcburney & I adapted Susan Cooper's novel The Dark Is Rising (1973) into a 12-episode BBC Sounds audio drama.
Our adaptation, like the novel, unfolds daily from Midwinter Eve.
Listen along together, an episode a day, starting 20/12?
bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13ā¦
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Very interesting to see the great Philippe Sands, reflecting on the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, calling for a 'move beyond the rights of the human' to 'embrace the rights of nature'.
Full article here: theguardian.com/commentisfree/ā¦
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature - GARN
Aberdeen University University of Aberdeen is trying to rush through ill-thought plans to cut its century-old degrees in Modern Languages, inc Gaelic.
If youād like to speak up against the cuts/share news of this, info & petitions are here: linktr.ee/uoaucu
Thanks.
#SaveUoAlanguages
Helloāāwd value recommendations of novels centring rock-climbing &/or mountaineering.
mike harrison's Climbers is, obviously, a masterpiece.
Helen Mort's Black Car Burning is superb.
Simon Mawer's The Fall, Salter's Solo Faces...what else? Any language.
(Not Jeffrey Archer...)
I stayed in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem for several weeks in 1994, while writing From the Holy Mountain. I regularly used to hear armed Settlers shouting 'Death to the Arab,' as they passed along the outer walls, smashing windows and breaking into shops. Now the Settlersā¦
The Atlantic Salmon is now officially āEndangeredā in the UK & āNear threatenedā on the IUCN List.
23% global population decline 2006-20.
Hereās a terrific thread by Peter Powell on what needs to be done (and can be done) to restore Salmon numbers in the UK. šš