And another

Review of Tree of Rivers, this time in the Sunday Times; including the best part of a paragraph about one of my favourite English eccentrics, someone who gets a few pages in In Search of the English Eccentric, the naturalist Charles Waterton:

We meet Charles Waterton, “the first Englishman to write in praise of tropical forests”. In his later years he turned his Yorkshire estate “into a wildlife sanctuary full of artificial burrows and nests...liked to dress as a scarecrow and sit in trees”, and “launched the world's first successful legal action over environmental pollution, against the owner of a nearby soap-works whose chimneys released noxious chemicals”.

Tree of Rivers

This doesn't have much to do with English eccentrics, but, here are two great reviews in this weekend's Telegraph of my Dad's latest book. It's called Tree of Rivers, published by Thames and Hudson, and is a single-volume history of the Amazon; obviously I'm biased in saying this but I think it's great, so have a look if you get the chance.