Book Reviews
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...
Underminers
Boyd Collins
10th January, 2014
In the new book, this celebration of the miracle of life and rage at its...
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...
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...
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...
The Way
Akshay Ahuja
14th February, 2012
It is not well-known in America, where the University of Georgia Press publishes it. I...
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...