Horatio Morpurgo’s literary essays and his reportage on the environment and on Central / East European affairs have appeared in many magazines and journals, as well as online. His essays have appeared in The London Magazine, The Edinburgh Review, Le Monde Diplomatique, Areté, New Internationalist and elsewhere. He studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh and now lives in the South West of England.
Lady Chatterley’s Defendant & Other Awkward Customers is Horatio’s first essay collection, gathering in one volume his reflections on contemporary Europe, the environment and writers as diverse and valuable (all of them) as Paul Goodman, Mary Midgley, Ted Hughes, Samuel Butler, Terry Eagleton and Thomas Hardy.
The whole collection has a freshness and a surprisingness which are a delight… I hope lots of people will read this book – for its vigour as well as its vision.
Ronald Blythe
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The author was part of the successful campaign to establish a marine reserve in Lyme Bay. The first such protected area of significant size in English waters, it has permanently closed sixty square miles of seabed to the scallop-dredgers. This book, based on a talk Morpurgo gave recently, is part memoir, part updated guide to the West Country’s long and continuing relationship with the sea. The Elizabethan Age of Discovery, the crucial part played by the sea in the development of Darwin’s theory, its role in the present-day study of climate: Morpurgo follows the thread which connects all of these and more.
The second edition of ‘Drake’s Graffiti’ is now available.
Horatio’s previous work, How Thomas Hardy Expressed His Doubt – some reflections on Weymouth’s Olympic Road and the resulting destruction of Bincombe Down is a lengthy essay published in book form. Excerpts from this book have been posted on the Woodland Trust website – you can read them here.
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Drake’s Graffiti
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