Author: Peter Hargreaves

A key text of “humanist” geography, placing human experience centre stage. Yi Fu Tuan is an Oxford-educated Chinese American geographer. He originally researched geomorphology, then landscapes, writing the volume of the Oxford edited “World Landscapes” series on China. He then became a, probably the, guru of “humanist” geography, putting man himself, and man’s experience, at … Continue reading Review: Space and Place; the Perspective of Experience by Yi Fu Tuan (1977) Assessment 9 out of 10

A  Book I wouldn’t have read without the Reading Group, ; a wonderful biography providing a doorway to philosophy and art. Nietzsche was initially a Classical philologist. With his first book “The Birth of Tragedy” he showed how Wagnerian opera mirrored Greek tragedy. Apollo was reasonable and logical and associated with painting, architecture &, in … Continue reading Review: I am Dynamite; a Life of Frederich Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux (2018) Assessment 9 out of 10

Published in 2005, 60 years after the end of the Occupation, with assistance from Jersey Heritage Trust and Société Jersiaise, it is based on extensive documentary research. It is both scholarly and admirably balanced. • Showing that the situations in the four separate British Channel Islands, Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, were different. In Jersey … Continue reading Review: The British Channel Islands Under German Occupation 1940-45 by Paul Sanders (2005) Assessment 8 out of 10

Sir Ian Kershaw notes that continuing to fight on to the bitter end in a war is rare. Casualties spiralled, German military losses in the last 10 months of the war were equal to those in the four years to July 1944, 350,000 German soldiers dying in each month of the final cataclysm. Allied bombing … Continue reading Review: The End: Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw (2011) Assessment 9 out of 10