Book reviews 2014 – mainly atlases and antiques

James Halliday’s Wine Atlas of Australia
2014 Edition
James Halliday
Hardie Grant
£41/$65

In recent years James Halliday has consistently updated his atlas every eight years. The previous edition was published in 2006 by Hardie Grant and then reprinted by the University of California Press a couple of years later. Halliday begins with his introduction, where he states more or less what he’s said in his previous edition, although here there is a strong, well-argued synopsis of the arguments involving climate change, the increase of carbon...