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Over the years, the Dark Mountain website has been home to reviews of books of interest to our readers.

Whether introducing neglected classics that deserve a home on an uncivilised bookshelf, or taking a critical look at new publications whose themes overlap with our work, we hope you find the reviews here a stimulus to reading, reflection and discussion.

Retrieval, resilience and wild planning

John Foster
4th January, 2015
Rob Hopkins in The Transition Handbook defines the idea of resilience more specifically thus: ‘…the...
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Underminers

Boyd Collins
10th January, 2014
In the new book, this celebration of the miracle of life and rage at its...
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The Snake in the Box

Charlotte Du Cann
3rd September, 2013
This was the fourth and last Uncivilisation Festival, held on a warm, rainy and windy...
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War with the Newts

Akshay Ahuja
22nd July, 2013
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The Desert and the Settlement

Akshay Ahuja
12th November, 2012
A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit (Penguin, 2010) Good News, Edward Abbey (Dutton, 1980) The Long...
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The Tracker

Richard Reese
5th October, 2012
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The Literature of Catastrophe

Akshay Ahuja
6th July, 2012
After London, or Wild England, Richard Jefferies (1885) I’m with the Bears: Short Stories from...
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Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance

Akshay Ahuja
7th April, 2012
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The Collapse of Complex Societies

Akshay Ahuja
19th March, 2012
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The Way

Akshay Ahuja
14th February, 2012
It is not well-known in America, where the University of Georgia Press publishes it. I...
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Man and the Natural World

Akshay Ahuja
12th January, 2012
I would give you some of the specifics, but unfortunately I have been realizing lately...
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Towards a Dark Mountain Reading List

Dougald Hine
26th August, 2009
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