Category: Book review

This is like a book, but it’s a supplement to a journal: Sandgrouse, the journal of OSME, the Ornithological Society of the Middle East.  This is the 50th anniversary issue. I have spent about four days of my life in the OSME region which stretches from Egypt to Kazakhstan and from quite large chunks of…

This will undoubtedly be one of the wildlife books of the year and it is a cracking good read.  You should read it. The book tells the story of the wilding of the Knepp Castle Farm, in Sussex, by its owners Sir Charles Burrell and his wife, the author of this book. So this is…

It was very sporting of GWCT to send me a copy of this book to review (I had to ask, but they sent it very quickly). Readers of this blog may well have their own copies of this book already but I thought it worth a brief review for those whose bookshelves lack it at…

This is a charming book, but lest that sounds a bit condescending (it wasn’t meant to be) it is also a cracking good read. Bill Meek is an ex-CEH ecologist who wrote a column for his local paper, the Cleethorpes Chronicle, for three and a half years.  In that column he aimed to inform, entertain…

  Reviewed by Ian Carter This new book describes Lion conservation today and how we have arrived at the current situation. It rattles along at a lively pace and sets out the information very clearly, making it easy to assimilate. The writing style is akin to that of a well-written, well-researched, newspaper article – highly…