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Nature 442, 985 (31 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/442985a; Published online 30 August 2006; Corrected 13 September 2006

On fertile ground

Camilla Toulmin1

BOOK REVIEWEDSoils and Societies: Perspectives from Environmental History

edited by J. R. McNeill & Verena Winiwater

White Horse Press: 2006. 369 pp. £50