Author(s): Olivia Laing

Science & Natural History

To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941, and excavates all sorts of stories from the Ouse's marshy banks, from the brutal Barons' War of the thirteenth century to the 'Dinosaur Hunters', the nineteenth-century amateur naturalists who first cracked the fossil code.