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First Impression:
Seems like a very well constructed site. Nice use of CSS and XHTML; Doctype validates, but there are a few errors that CSS validation pointed out. Seems like they may be due to missing ':' or something similar.

A couple of things I may have done differently:
Your page width (the width of the <div/> with ID of box) is specified in em as opposed to pixels. While it it great for flexibility to specify relative sizes using ems, the one exception I would make is with page width which I would specify in pixels for the following reason: if the user attempts to increase the text size for readability, the entire page scales both vertically (as it should) and horizontally (may want to re-think that one); when the page width scales with the text, it quickly becomes too wide for the browser viewport which leads to having to scroll horizontally to see all the content (not the best user experience).

Another thing is that some of your images have an alt set to 'printable header' which is meaningless; alts are used to provide information about what the visitor may be missing if the images do not load, cannot load, are not visible (in the case of a screen reader), or are turned off. Decorative imagery that does little or nothing to add value to the context should use empty alt attributes while contextual imagery should have a descriptive alt, and possibly also make use of longdesc, if the situation warrants it. Most of your images have excellent alt text, so perhaps the ones with 'printable header' are errors or attributes set to aid development that were unintentionally left in production.

Other than the minor issues mentioned above, I found nothing else to criticize about this site.

I think the design is clean and appropriate, the navigation is very clear and takes the visitor where he/she expects to go; the photography is top notch and the content that I read was well-written and good length.

It seems to work fine with images, JavaScript, and CSS turned off, and the content is interesting and engaging (I was actually reading some of the pages out of interest). Lots of great content here.

I don't see any adverts or stuff to buy, so the only question in my mind is what is the site actually for? Is it simply an (excellent) educational resource?

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