God Is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature, Ben Goldsmith

God Is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature, Ben GoldsmithNew paperback In July 2019, Ben Goldsmith lost his fifteen year old daughter, Iris, in an accident on their family farm in Somerset. Iris's death left her family reeling. Grasping for answers, Ben threw himself into searching for some ongoing trace of his beloved child, exploring ideas that until then had seemed too abstract to mean much to him. Missing his daughter terribly and struggling to imagine how he would face the rest of his life in the

But now she's older

Ageing well takes work and the man who hasn't stopped for three decades is now sharing the tips and learnings that have helped him keep going

encompassing the whole of the emperor's life

the logistics of the long voyage south

from Somerset to Dorset

founding fathers of the Turkish air arm

a wartime nurse who lived at Silverwood many years ago

twenty-four-year-old Flora Macdonald is woken in the dead of night by a messenger with urgent intelligence

swimming in icy waters and sailing arctic seas

Got your special meds

and various attempts were made to power them but it was the arrival of the internal combustion engine that saw the balloon transformed into the airship

On New Year's Day 2012