Too dry and so many lost opportunities to use pictures rather than words. She gave many statistics in text where a chart would have been so much more effective and interesting. Also I thought it would be an interesting mix of science and stories/facts/myths however the interesting stories only came at the end after an entire book about oyster farming techniques and I was bored by then so only skimmed. I was hoping for a Mary Roach type book but was very disappointed. Has almost put me off oysters too.
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We follow Esther Greenwood's personal life from her summer job in New York with Ladies' Day magazine, back through her …
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There are more than 50 000 species of spiders. They surround us in our daily lives and, contrary to popular …
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The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow, David Graeber, and 1 other
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history
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When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. …
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Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. …