Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands
Annie Worsley (William Collins, £16.99)
THE author was raised in Widnes, birthplace of the British chemical industry. Her mother died young of lung cancer exacerbated by the town’s toxic air pollution. Spurred by that misfortune, Annie Worsley, a physical geographer and academic, investigated urban pollution and its effects on human health. A spell of doctoral research in the New Guinea Highlands into human impacts upon landscapes led to
