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"Kaag has a pleasingly wry, compact style, and is particularly interesting on thinkers that Nietzsche influenced heavily..."

"Politics and a decades-long father–son struggle..."

"There’s a special magic in Richards’s luminous descriptions of nature and place, but also in the stories he tells..."

"he is too nuanced an observer not to present that world as the complex, mysterious and self-renewing system that it undoubtedly is. ..."

"Peppiatt leans much more toward his misses than his hits, and he can be très drôle with it..."

" a rare rising star of the genre..."

"The former political adviser dines with sheikhs and stays with ambassadors to grasp how a generation let down the Middle East..."

"elegantly written, beautifully illustrated book opens with this thrilling summary of Thomas Atkinson’s hazardous journeys in the Urals, Kazakhstan and Siberia..."

" remarkable..."

"illuminated by flashes of gentle wit..."

"Her travelling days may be over, but the grand dame of travel writing still offers novel perspectives on the world..."

"Footprint that was a mum’s only memento of her son: Author gives a fascinating insight into the history of Britain’s peat-cutting families in new tome...."