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David George Haskell
The Origin of Our Species: How Grains and Grasses Fed (and Still Feed) Humankind
David George Haskell In Praise of a Versatile, Life-Giving Plant
By
David George Haskell
| March 25, 2026
How David George Haskell Decodes the Sounds of Our Natural World
The Author of
Sounds Wild and Broken
Goes in Search of Birdsong, Elk Calls and More
By
David George Haskell
| March 10, 2022
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"A vivid, sometimes grisly, sometimes enraging portrait of 19th-century British society ... Probing and excellent."