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Jonathan Lamb

Letters to the Editor - May 2017

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May 2017, no. 391

Scurvy

Dear Editor,
All authors are perhaps oversensitive to reviews of their books, but I have never been tempted to quarrel with a reviewer until now. Alan Atkinson’s review of Scurvy: The disease of discovery (April 2017) contains a ...

Scurvy: The disease of discovery by Jonathan Lamb

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April 2017, no. 390
Alan Atkinson reviews 'Scurvy: The disease of discovery' by Jonathan Lamb

I have been dazzled and baffled by this book. The variety of learning, showing itself especially in a range of beautiful and apposite quotations, is wonderful. The depiction of scurvy as subjective experience is brilliant and deeply sympathetic. However, parts of the historical argument are very hard to follow, and altogether they suggest that the imagination at pla ...