Category: Book review

A follow-up to Behind the Binoculars to be published in October. Behind More Binoculars follows the same model as its predecessor: we ask birdy people the questions we think you’d like to ask. Interviewees: Frank Gardner Ann and Tim Cleeves Roy Dennis Kevin Parr Tony Marr Tim Appleton Tim Birkhead Dawn Balmer Jon Hornbuckle Tony…

I have to admit that John (Johannes) Riutta’s excellent website, The Well-Read Naturalist, first came to my attention when he wrote a very kind review of my A Message from Martha, but I have been dipping into it regularly ever since. I like the ethos of the site ‘The Well-read Naturalist publishes reviews and news…

    Reviewed by Ian Carter One of the joys of reviewing books is that you end up reading titles that would otherwise pass you by. Of course, it doesn’t always work out well, but I had high hopes for this one having read about all the awards and commendations it has received. Before reading…

This book is a tour de force in so many ways. The photographs, many of which are superb, are all taken by the author, and the words are all his and the book is published by him. This is the result of years of travel and is subtitled ‘One man’s mission to document climate change…

    Reviewed by Ian Carter I tried very hard to like this book and, in the end, despite the rather relentless ‘chatty’ style of writing, I think I just about got there. It’s certainly a hard book to categorise. In part, it’s a history of recently extinct birds in the USA and the individuals…