Book review – Looking for the Goshawk by Conor Jameson

I liked Conor’s previous book, but I like this one even more.  Whereas in Silent Spring Revisited Conor lived through the events described but seemed, to me, to be a little detached from them, this is a book where he describes what he did, and where he went, to get to grips better with a…

Book review – Silent Spring revisited

You may have noticed that I have been blogging on the RSPB website since 1 June – in the run up to the Rio+20 conference of world ‘leaders’ which starts next week. My blog for the RSPB today is about the widespread use of ‘-cides’ – chemical poisons. Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring, was published…