This is a finely produced and beautiful book about birds in history. Even if you didn’t read the words between the pictures you’d get a lot out of it. And, that was how I started with this book – I flicked through it, was caught up by an image, read the caption and then looked…
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Sunday book review – Birding in an Age of Extinction by Martin Painter.
This is a good read if you are a birder or if you’ve ever chased after a rare bird anywhere in the world. The author has done a bit of that, with what appears to be the usual mixture of success and failure. He has travelled widely and visited such places as remote Norfolk Island…
Sunday book review – Wild Mull by Stephen Littlewood and Martin Jones
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This is a very attractive book which deals with a very attractive place which is rich in wildlife. If you are a naturalist visiting Mull then you should read this book, luxuriate in the images, imagine you’ll see all the wildlife and plan your trip ahead of setting off, and take the book with you…
Sunday book review – Lost Animals by Errol Fuller
This is a book of photographs of extinct species, so it’s a bit like looking through a very old family album whose subjects you’ve never met but with whom you feel somehow linked through time. All the species are either mammals or birds. Some of the photographs are of poor quality, and many are unsurprisingly…
Iceland’s election
Iceland has had a general election and the results of it may have implications for whaling, climate change action and the composition of the EU. Iceland is a small country geographically with a very small population – its land area is just under half of that of the UK but its population is less than…