This book goes straight into my shortlist of books of the year for 2020: no doubt about it. I wish I had written this book but since I didn’t, I’m very glad that someone else did so that I could read it. I guess I am sounding enthusuastic about it – I am. It’s a…
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Sunday book review – Rock Pool by Heather Buttivant
Here in east Northants we are a bit lacking in coastal habitats and my nearest coast is muddy and sandy rather than rocky. If I lived at the coast I would love to explore the wildlife making its living, or temporarily made captive in the pools between the tidelines. As the author explains here so…
Sunday book review – Into the Tangled Bank by Lev Parikian
This is as much an exploration of how we, people, interact or not with nature as it is about nature. The author talks to people and observes them as he watches nature and visits places associated with former greats such as Peter Scott, Gilbert White, John Clare, Etta Lemon, Thomas Bewick and the tangled bank…
Sunday book review – On the Trail of Wolves by Philippa Forrester
Philippa Forrester, the UK broadcaster, spent over a year in the greater Yellowstone area with her film cameramen husband and their school-aged children. This book chronicles her encounters with wildlife and with Americans. I’ve been to Yellowstone twice and seen Grey Wolves there both times (and Grizzlies and Black Bears and a bunch of other…
Sunday book review – The Birds They Sang by Stanislaw Lubienski
This book has a Polish author and many stories of Polish ornithologists, artists and writers. Since I first visited Poland last year, for a family reason, I was predisposed to these parts of the book. I enjoyed hearing of painter Jozef Chelmonski and then Googling his works, and greatly enjoying some of them and not…