As short a book as it is, Life Everlasting is a lively collection of stories, investigations, reflections, and musings all joined together by a central theme – that of not just how the remains of the dead are reincorporated into the cycle of life but, perhaps more importantly, why they are.
I’ll be honest; when I read the press release for Carol Gracie’s forthcoming book Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast: A Natural History, Princeton University Press had me at “In a book that hearkens back to an earlier era of natural history…”
Of all the North American birds that twitchers from around the world would dearly love to add to their life lists, few rank higher than the Kirtland’s Warbler.
Without feathers, not only would birds not be anything like what they are today, they would in all likelihood not be at all.
Following upon the publication this past January of Peter Friend’s volume on Scotland, HarperCollins UK, has announced the next two forthcoming volumes of the unparalleled New Naturalists series.
Traveling to the Leeward Lesser Antilles? Just like to relax in a chair at home and dream of the amazing birds to be seen in the Southern Caribbean?
Taking up birding isn’t particularly difficult. However once one has begun practicing it, how does one best go about improving one’s skills in it? Derek Lovitch has worked out a system for doing precisely that.
Following right on the heels of their Birds of India, Princeton University Press has now released Birds of Melanesia as the latest addition to the rapidly expanding Princeton Field Guides series.