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British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

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Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

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Lobster

Popular Science Out of Print
By: Richard J King
216 pages, 100 col & b/w illus
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Lobster
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  • Lobster ISBN: 9781861897954 Paperback May 2011 Out of Print #187631
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This book takes us on a journey through the history, biology, cuisine and culture of lobsters, and their economic and environmental status worldwide. Richard J. King describes how the lobster is an international commodity, and how the American lobster fishery is arguably one of the last healthy wild fisheries left on Earth. He describes the evolution of technologies to capture these creatures, and addresses the ethics of boiling them alive. King also explores the salacious lobster palaces of the 1920s, as well as the animal's thousand-year status as an aphrodisiac, and how it has inspired numerous artists, writers and thinkers including Aristotle, Dickens, Thoreau, Dal and Woody Allen.

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Biography

Richard J. King is Lecturer in Literature of the Sea at the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport, Connecticut. He has written widely on maritime culture and literature

Popular Science Out of Print
By: Richard J King
216 pages, 100 col & b/w illus
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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'These are food memoirs, salacious and exotic, colorful, powdered, sweet, greasy and globe-trotting ... sharp and speedy little reads, spotted with off-kilter illustrations' - Chicago Tribune 'These little morsels of books are part of a delightful and new imprint known as the Edible series ... The history of each foodstuff is set out compactly and with erudition ... in each case, it's when the history moves closer to current day that revelation and delight meet.' - Diplomat magazine

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