Life on One Leg

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(His parents always told him he just had "tight tendons" and left it at that. Brilliant, charismatic, and heroic, he ended up being a close friend of Wellington after their initial problems, and died a hero. After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wide, wild Pacific. This Knight of the Garter, Field Marshall and privy councillor, lost his leg at Waterloo. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world. I could get lost in his brilliant brain forever. And we're updating this list every week.

• Man's War Against Nature by Rachel Carson
• There is No Point of No Return by Arne Næss
• Uncanny and Improbable Events by Amitav Ghosh
• This Can't Be Happening by George Monbiot
• No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
• The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah by Masanobu Fukuoka
• The Clan of One-Breasted Women by Terry Tempest Williams
• The Last Tree on Easter Island by Jared Diamond
• The Democracy of Species by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• An Idea Can Go Extinct by Bill McKibben
• Hot Money by Naomi Klein