Whether you want to travel through the human body, to the furthest reaches of the globe, or even to outer space, these science and environment books cover it all. Go back in time to a world long before humans, figure out just what makes your body clock tick, or follow a country doctor caring for her community during Covid. There’s something for every inquiring mind.
A fifth of the British landscape was once covered in temperate rainforest — damp, lush and dripping in mosses and ferns. But this great ecosystem, which covered a great strip down the rainy Atlantic coast, has almost disappeared — cleared over the centuries for timber and sheep pasture. Fragments remain, but they cover just 0.5 per cent of Britain, hidden
