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Jenny Uglow profiles 'Nature's Engraver' [audio 35min]

Jenny Uglow talks to Isabel Hilton about her new book Nature's Engraver, a biography of Thomas Bewick, who wrote and illustrated Bewick's History of British Birds. It was the first 'field guide' for ordinary people and the book that significantly shaped the way we view the natural world.
Read entire article at BBC Radio 3 "Night Waves"