Author Profile: Michael McCarthy

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Order Out of Chaos • Michael McCarthy

Issue 312 • January/February 2019 • Courage > Reviews

Review of The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist

A World Closer to Nature • Michael McCarthy

Issue 310 • September/October 2018 • Inspired to Action > Reviews

Review of Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words

Our Vanishingly Pleasant Land • Michael McCarthy

Issue 309 • July/August 2018 • The Food Issue > Reviews

Review of Our Place: Can We Save Britain's Wildlife Before It Is Too Late?

Worlds Unto Themselves • Michael McCarthy

Issue 307 • March/April 2018 • A Song for Spring > Reviews

Review of Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago

Beauty on the Wing • Michael McCarthy

Issue 303 • July/August 2017 • The Pilgrim's Path > Reviews

Review of Remarkable Birds

Without Them, We're Dead • Michael McCarthy

Issue 301 • March/April 2017 • Manifesto for A Green Mind > Reviews

Review of What Have Plants Ever Done For Us? Western Civilization in Fifty Plants

Seeing the World Half Empty • Michael McCarthy

Issue 299 • November/December 2016 • Brave New Worlds > Reviews

Review of Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight For Life

The Man Who Stood Up For Nature • Michael McCarthy

Issue 298 • September/October 2016 • Regenerative Cities > Ecologist

A tribute to pioneering ecologist George Perkins Marsh

The Man Who Discovered the World • Michael McCarthy

Issue 297 • July/August 2016 • Natural Healing > Reviews

Review of The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt - The Lost Hero of Science

Putting Plants in their Proper Place • Michael McCarthy

Issue 296 • May/June 2016 • Days of Hope > Reviews

Review of The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination

Where Two Worlds Meet • Michael McCarthy

Issue 295 • March/April 2016 • Walking Back to Happiness > Reviews

Review of Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore

Souls With Wings • Michael McCarthy

Issue 294 • January/February 2016 • A Food Renaissance > Reviews

Review of Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies

Nature and Joy • Michael McCarthy

Issue 292 • September/October 2015 • Lines of Hope > Ecologist

How the natural world can inspire us