Could you expand on this a little more? Was he more of a presenter and given incorrect information by others to present as his own?
What are you currently reading?
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Talking Pictures TV is so wonderful. I discovered it while having the worst week of my life and it's just so dreamy to have a full day of films you've never heard of, but all of them interesting. Read an interview with the people who run it, it's a real passion project, they do it out of their garden shed. It's so hard to access any kind of archival film and television if you live outside of London (where you can visit the BFI), especially now Network Television Dvd company has shut down
(Mr Network television died and presumably it hadn't been making enough profit. But it's a tragedy, an absolute tragedy, for those of us who enjoy or study old telly)
Anyway, I'm reading Underlsnd by Robert MacFarlane. I didn't get into Wild Places, but the writing in Underlsnd is great and the places he visits are all cthohic and terrifying
A bit of both. A lot of what was written about traditional crafts during the late 1960s-70s revival was borderline at best, and plagiarised and regurgitated in books almost to the extent now seen with online blogs. A lot of it was just plain wrong- hearsay, poorly memories, craftsmen deliberately misleading authors for a laugh, and extremes being recorded as the everyday.
Hargreaves also came out with a lot of sweeping statements and presented a lot of opinions as facts- he was publically criticised for this at the time by historians. A lot of what he did was also staged, I've spoken to the man who did the hard work behind his fishing 'achievements'!
I was reading this:
Kayaking the Great Circle Trilogy: Down the Mississippi River, Around the Intercoastal Waterways and Across the Great Lakes
Randy Bauer, James J. Bauer
Thanks to this thread have more reading material ordered!
Kayaking the Great Circle Trilogy: Down the Mississippi River, Around the Intercoastal Waterways and Across the Great Lakes
Randy Bauer, James J. Bauer
Thanks to this thread have more reading material ordered!
NB: not particularly bushcrafty, but…
Yep. I’m retired and find that a lot of what TPTV broadcasts is absolutely classic. Well worth recording on our digibox and then watching at our leisure. Doubly so when the programmes on the more established channels appear to be in some kind of death spiral of quality, content, and repetition.
I'm currently reading Sharpes Command (again), by Bernard Cornwell. Thought it was the latest one but apparently there's another out, and one more due in Oct. This makes me a happy man.
@Kepis
How are you getting on with that. I enjoyed it. Very much easier to read than Hutton!!
I do sometimes wonder whether our ancestors were aware of the thinking that we attribute to them. I find that reading a number of references to the same mythology gives me a satisfactory conjecture (if not a correct one
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How are you getting on with that. I enjoyed it. Very much easier to read than Hutton!!
I do sometimes wonder whether our ancestors were aware of the thinking that we attribute to them. I find that reading a number of references to the same mythology gives me a satisfactory conjecture (if not a correct one
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After some reminding in another thread, I’ve finally got round to properly reading Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins. Last attempt I got distracted by life very early on, but now I have the time to sit and enjoy it.
He describes some truly beautiful and awe inspiring ways of viewing our world through a scientific lens rather than a classical spiritual or religious one.
That said, I do think he needs to work on his chat-up lines:
He describes some truly beautiful and awe inspiring ways of viewing our world through a scientific lens rather than a classical spiritual or religious one.
That said, I do think he needs to work on his chat-up lines:
I like Dawkins. Can't say i've read any of his books, but seen a few of his presentations on youtube.
Is this thread for any genre of book?
I recently finished Ranulph Fiennes 'Mind over Matter' which was brilliant and currently a quarter way through 'In the Footsteps of Scott' by Roger Mear and Robert Swan. Before the Ranulph Fiennes book, I read Alive and Miracle in the Andes which were both fascinating.
I recently finished Ranulph Fiennes 'Mind over Matter' which was brilliant and currently a quarter way through 'In the Footsteps of Scott' by Roger Mear and Robert Swan. Before the Ranulph Fiennes book, I read Alive and Miracle in the Andes which were both fascinating.
I’ve often wondered that. Very little of my reading is anything “outdoors” related.
Just finished reading a very sweet romance called Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells by Heidi Swaine.
(No takers for the Bear Grylls book?)
Another book I currently have on the go but have read numerous times before is Wayfarer by Frank Dye. It describes how he sailed his Wayfarer dinghy to Iceland and to Norway on two separate occasions. He suffered numerous capsizes at night during major storms and even snapped his mast which had to be fixed at sea.
He actually filmed his trip to Norway which is available to watch on YouTube.
He actually filmed his trip to Norway which is available to watch on YouTube.
I assume so! I don’t often read outdoorsy books, so hopefully.
