FFON. The Frightened Face of Nature.

  • London Zoo. The old Reptile House 

    London Zoo. The old Reptile House 

    Recollections and requiem; a farewell visit to the London Zoo Reptile House John and Margaret Cooper Many readers will have visited the Reptile House at the London Zoo. Designed by Joan Beauchamp Procter and Sir Edward Guy Dawber, it was opened in 1928 and for decades provided both a home for, and an insight into,…

  • M’s (Maxwell Knight) Spectre: The Frightened Face of Nature

    M’s (Maxwell Knight) Spectre: The Frightened Face of Nature

    During the 1960s Maxwell Knight – the real-life “M” – was working on a manuscript entitled The Frightened Face of Nature, snatching brief moments to record his thoughts on how man had treated nature so unfairly for the first fifty years of the twentieth century. The manuscript documented Knight’s greatest fears that, time was running…