Charles Foster’s previous book, The Screaming Sky (reviewed here) was so good that I made it one of my books of 2021 (click here) and that made me keen to read this book. I wasn’t at all disappointed but Cry of the Wild is a very different book and may not be to everyone’s taste…
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Bank Holiday Monday book review – The Vegan Gardener
I’m not a vegan and I am a pretty unambitious gardener but I got something from this book. It’s a good introduction to gardening and the vegan bit is rather incidental to most of the book so don’t let that put you off if you have eaten steak tartare recently. As with many gardening…
Sunday book review – Traffication by Paul Donald
This is a very good book. It will be one of the books of the year for those interested in wildlife and wildlife conservation – perhaps THE book of the year. And that’s because it is very well-written, pretty important and deals with what is a largely novel subject to most potential readers. I recommend…
Breeding Bird Survey report 2022
I’m a big fan of the Breeding Bird Survey – I describe it and comment on it in Chapter 2 of Reflections. I’m also a participant but even if I weren’t then I’d be poring over the annual report as soon as I could each year. And so I had my first look at the…
Sunday book review – Across a Waking Land by Roger Morgan-Grenville
This is the tale of an almost 1000-mile walk from the southern edge of the New Forest to Cape Wrath by a fit 62-year-old who encounters landscapes, people and wildlife on his journey of 51 walking days. It’s a good read and I enjoyed it very much. Quite honestly, the interactions with people, fellow walkers,…