This is a standard New Naturalist – a series of books that doesn’t feel very new, or at all ground-breaking these days. Penny Anderson gives a workpersonlike account of the wildlife and ecology of this area, mostly a National Park, and the habitats it includes. There is mention of raptor persecution. Hen Harrier appears in…
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Sunday book review – Children of the Anthropocene by Bella Lack
This is a book written by an 18-year-old environmentalist – and it’s being reviewed here by a 64-year-old environmentalist. Forty-six years ago there weren’t books of this sort written by undergraduates and I’m very glad that I didn’t have one published then because I suspect that it would be an embarrassing read with the benefit…
Sunday book review – In Search of One Last Song by Patrick Galbraith
I’ve been looking forward to reading this book – but with some trepidation. I know the author just a little, he bought me lunch once, and I chose my words carefully and somewhat guardedly with him. Why? Because he is the editor of the Shooting Times. So I wasn’t sure what to expect from this…
Book reviews on this blog so far, this year
This weekend I’m reading and writing. Since 1 January 2022 these book reviews have appeared on this blog – one a week on average. The Trespasser’s Companion by Nick Hayes – review Thin Places by Kerri ni Dochartaigh – review The Role of Birds in World War Two by Nicholas Milton – review Saving Eden…
Published today – The Trespasser’s Companion by Nick Hayes
This is a follow-up to the same author’s Book of Trespass from 2020 – see review here – and just as I loved the first book I love this one too. Perhaps even more so. It’s a book with attitude, and I like that. I also agree with a great deal of it, although even…