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Thanks for introducing this prize. I am here eagerly waiting for today's announcement of Baillie Gifford's shortlist and now I get even more books to read! I am going to prioritize Material World first as I finished Cobalt Red a few months ago. I learned so much about the human aspect in mining in DRC and how colonization is an ongoing problem.
Thank you for posting about this prize and these books. Another prize I wish more book tubers included in their reading and postings is the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. There are winner and runner-up awards selected from a list of finalists in both nonfiction and fiction. All the books are ones which “have led readers to a better understanding of other cultures, peoples, religions, and political points of view.” I hope you will make this award one that you include on your channel.
What an interesting literary prize! This is exactly the kind of non-fiction that interests me. Each of these books tempts me a lot. Particularly the one on languages, living in Quebec, the protection of French in Canada is a constant subject of concern here in the regional news. It is with a lot of interest that I will follow this prize. Thank you very much!
Thank you for sharing information about book prizes like this one! Even with a busy TBR list, I plan to read The Tame and the Wild - it seems like an interesting expansion of the history of colonization. Read on!!
'Smoke and Ashes' sounds amazing, I'd like that one. I studied the opium wars at school but haven't thought about it much since then. I'm currently reading 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' Victober adjacent, which is interesting.
A non-fiction book I thought was good was Nature’s Ghosts by Sophie Yeo... Journalist Sophie Yeo examines how the planet would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity: from landscapes carved out by megafauna to the primeval forests that emerged following the last Ice Age, and from the eagle-haunted skies of the Dark Ages to the flower-decked farms of more recent centuries. Uncovering the stories of the people who have helped to shape the landscape, she seeks out their footprints even where it seems there are none to be found. And she explores the timeworn knowledge that can help to fix our broken relationship with the earth. I found this an interesting read
