Nature writer and fellow at Emmanuel College at Cambridge University. Author of “Underland: A Deep Time Journey,” “The Old Ways” and “Landmarks” and collaborator on the album “Lost in the Cedar Wood” inspired by “The Epic of Gilgamesh.”
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