Marcus Janssen has followed Mike Barnes as editor of Fieldsports quarterly magazine. He welcomes in-depth illustrated articles.
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Marking the debut of Academic Book Week, On The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was voted the most influential academic title in history, from a shortlist of twenty. The definition of ‘academic’ was stretched for the public vote, to include popular science works Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris, as well as George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.